Young ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but the
job is less glamorous than one might think, especially since the
assassination attempts started. Worse yet, they're trying to
destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine called
Fiddlehead, which provides undeniable proof of something awful
enough to destroy the world. Both man and machine are at risk from
forces conspiring to keep the Civil War going and the money
flowing.
Bardsley has no choice but to ask his patron, former president
Abraham Lincoln, for help. Lincoln retired from leading the country
after an attempt on his life, but is quite interested in Bardsley's
immense data-processing capacities, confident that if people have
the facts, they'll see reason and urge the government to end the
war. Lincoln must keep Bardsley safe until he can finish his
research, so he calls on his old private security staff to protect
Gideon and his data.
Maria "Belle" Boyd was a retired Confederate spy, until she got
a life-changing job offer from the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Pinkerton respects her work, despite reservations about her
lingering Southern loyalties. But it's precisely those loyalties
that let her go into Confederate territory to figure out who might
be targeting Bardsley. Maria is a good detective, but with spies
from both camps gunning for her, can even the notorious Belle Boyd
hold the greedy warhawks at bay?
Another rollicking alternate history from Cherie
Priest"--Fiddlehead "is the fifth book in the Clockwork Century
steampunk series""that started with "Boneshaker."
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