Phoenix rising
Subtitle: a Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences novel
By: Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris
Contributors: Morris, Tee
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780062049766
Subjects: Intelligence service; Steampunk fiction; Secret societies; Murder; Fiction
Description: "These are dark days indeed in Victoria's England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences--the Crown's clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling--will not allow its agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however, with her bulletproof corset and a disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to let the matter rest...and she's prepared to drag her timorous new partner, Wellington Books, along with her into the perilous fray. For a malevolent brotherhood is operating in the deepening London shadows, intent upon the enslavement of all Britons. And Books and Braun--he with his encyclopedic brain and she with her remarkable devices--muyst get to the twisted roots of a most nefarious plot...or see England fall to the Phoenix!"--P. [4] of cover.