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Name: Wilson, Daniel H - The Clockwork Dynasty - Wilson, Daniel H
Format: epub
Size: 5.85 MB

Title: Wilson, Daniel H. - The Clockwork Dynasty
Author: Wilson, Daniel H.
Language: English
Year: 2017
Subjects: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780385541787
Total pages: 626 str.

An epic, ingenious new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse, The Clockwork Dynasty weaves a riveting path through history and a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries.

In the rugged landscape of eastern Oregon, a young scientist named June uncovers an exquisite artifact-a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll whose existence seems to validate her obsession with a harrowing story she was told by her grandfather many years earlier. The mechanical doll, June believes, is proof of a living race of automatons that walk undetected among us to this day. Ingeniously hidden inside the ancient doll is a lost message, addressed to the court of Peter the Great, czar of Russia.
Russia, 1725: Peter and Elena, two human-like mechanical beings, are brought to life under the watchful guise of Peter the Great. Their struggle to serve in the court of the czar while blending in, and...