The Ultimate Secret (16 page)
About the Author
Born in Australia,
David Thomas Moore
has lived and worked in the UK for the past twenty years, and has been writing for roleplaying magazines, fiction websites and short story anthologies for eight years.
The Ultimate Secret
is his first novella. He lives in Reading with his wife Tamsin and daughter Beatrix. You're glad you met him.
A GALAXY-SPANNING ADVENTURE!
Doc Thunder – the gold-bearded, bronze-muscled Hero of New York – in his last stand against a deadly foe whose true identity will shock you to your core!
El Sombra – the masked avenger, the laughing killer they call the Saint of Ghosts – in his final battle against the forces of the Ultimate Reich!
The Scion of Tomorrow, the steel-clad Locomotive Man, in a showdown with cosmic science on the prairies of the Old West!
Jacob Steele, the time-lost gunfighter, defends the 25th Century against the massed armies of the Space Satan!
And a deadly duel of minds and might between the Red King and Red Queen in the mystery palaces of One Million AD!
‘ONE OF THE BEST SUPERHERO PASTICHES I’VE EVER READ’
Pornokitsch
on
Gods of Manhattan
‘NOT ONLY A POET OF PULP, BUT A POET OF BEATING-TO-A-PULP... AL EWING’S GOT THE GOODS.’
-
The Steampunk Scholar
on
El Sombra
Join Ulysses Quicksilver – dandy, detective and agent of the crown – as he battles the enemies of the Empire in this thrilling steampunk adventure.
A RACE AGAINST TIME!
Paris. City of lights. City of lovers. City of dreams. Yet if one man gets his way, its inhabitants will soon be forced to endure a nightmare such as they have never known.
Hero of the British Empire Ulysses Quicksilver is determined to stand in his way... even as he returns from the past to appear on the scene of a horrific murder!
Before he can hope to rescue the French capital from its fate, Ulysses must go on the run and track down the real killer. His intention: to clear his good name, and get back to England in one piece. And quickly, for the love of his life is about to take a most ill-advised trip to the Moon.
Can Quicksilver stop the terrorist known only as ‘Le Papillon’?
“I love knowing I can pick up certain authors and be guaranteed a good time. That’s just what I got with
Anno Frankenstein
.”
–
Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review
on
Anno Frankenstein
“The reader feels like the cozy universe of Pax Britannia is truly, irreversibly changing.”
–
Pornokitsch
on
Dark Side
www.abaddonbooks.com
ACTION AND ADVENTURE IN A NEW AGE OF STEAM!
Join Ulysses Quicksilver – dandy, adventurer and agent of the crown – as he battles the enemies of the Empire in this collection of rip-roaring steampunk adventures. This action-packed tome brings you three sensational tales...
UNNATURAL HISTORY
Queen Victoria is celebrating the 160th year of her reign, but all is not well at the heart of the empire. An eminent professor of evolutionary biology goes missing. A catastrophic Overground rail-crash unleashes the dinosaurs of London Zoo. Is this the work of crazed revolutionaries, or are more sinister forces at work? For Ulysses the game is afoot!
LEVIATHAN RISING
It’s all aboard the
Neptune
, the latest in submersible cruise-liners, for a jolly ocean jaunt. But what starts out as a holiday quickly turns into a voyage of terror for Ulysses and his companions. A brutal murder is committed and then an act of sabotage plunges the Neptune into the abyssal depths. There a deadly secret awaits them, as the Leviathan awakes!
HUMAN NATURE
The Whitby Mermaid is stolen from Cruickshank’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Ulysses Quicksilver is soon on the case. What does the theft have to do with the mysterious House of Monkeys? And what of the enigmatic criminal known as the Magpie? Ulysses’ investigation takes him to Whitby, where something sinister lurks on the moors, carefully choosing its victims!
“Jonathan Green gets mileage out of his monsters, with big action set-pieces that read like things we’d like to see in a rip-roaring summer movie.” -
SFX
