The Revenant Express
A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation
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3.6 • 13 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The grand adventure continues in George Mann's Newbury & Hobbes steampunk mystery series, as a Victorian special agent races across a continent to save his beloved's life on board The Revenant Express.
Sir Maurice Newbury is bereft as his trusty assistant Veronica Hobbes lies dying with a wounded heart. Newbury and Veronica's sister Amelia must take a sleeper train across Europe to St. Petersberg to claim a clockwork heart that Newbury has commissioned from Faberge to save Veronica from a life trapped in limbo.
No sooner do they take off then sinister goings-on start to plague the train, and it is discovered that an old villain, thought dead, is also on board and seeking revenge. Can Newbury and Amelia defeat him and get the clockwork organ back to the Fixer in time to save Veronica? And can they do so without Newbury going so far into the dark side of occult magic that he can never return?
Meanwhile, Sir Charles Bainbridge is the only one of their team left in London to struggle with a case involving a series of horrific crimes. Someone is kidnapping prominent men and infecting them with the Revenant plague, leaving them chained in various locations around the city. But why?
It's a rousing chase to save both London and Veronica. Will these brave detectives be up to the task?
Newbury & Hobbes Investigations
#1: The Affinity Bridge
#2: The Osirus Ritual
#3: The Immortality Engine
#4: The Executioner's Heart
#5: The Revenant Express
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mann's fifth early-20th-century supernatural thriller featuring investigators Sir Maurice Newbury and Veronica Hobbes (after 2013's The Executioner's Heart) has more clich s than chills: one villain remarks to a helpless prisoner, "If you're going to die, I suppose you should at least know why." Sir Maurice is en route to St. Petersburg by train, along with Veronica's sister, Amelia, in a desperate attempt to get access to "the intricate mechanisms" needed to replace Veronica's failing heart. Their mission is imperiled by a member of the Cabal of the Horned Beast, a society dedicated to remaking humanity "in the Devil's image," as well as bloodthirsty revenants. Meanwhile, back in London, Veronica is aiding the police in investigating a deadly and highly contagious parasitic fungus that has been destroying people's bodies from the inside. Stock situations and throwback pulp prose ("The girl would be no trouble. His blade would drink its fill as it parted her soft, yielding flesh") add up to a forgettable novel.
