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Dreadnought: A Novel of the Clockwork Century
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Dreadnought: A Novel of the Clockwork Century Paperback - 2010

by Cherie Priest

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Priest delivers the stand-alone sequel to her steampunk adventure--and runaway hit--"Boneshaker."

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Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy's husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, she'll catch a train over the Rockies and--if the telegram can be believed--be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle.

Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the Dreadnought. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard.

What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy can't imagine why they're so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it?

Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Dreadnought alive.

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  • Title Dreadnought: A Novel of the Clockwork Century
  • Author Cherie Priest
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tor Books, New York
  • Publication date 2010-09-28
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9780765325785 / 0765325780
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.1 in (21.59 x 14.48 x 2.79 cm)
  • Reading level 990
  • Category Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Widows, Alternative histories (Fiction)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010032571
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Publishers Weekly, 08/16/2010, Page 0
  • Romantic Times, 09/01/2010, Page 60

About the author

Cherie Priest is the author of Boneshaker, which was nominated for a Nebula and Hugo Award, won the Locus Award for best science-fiction novel, and was named Steampunk Book of the Year by steampunk.com. She is also the author of the near-contemporary fantasy Fathom, and she debuted to great acclaim with Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom, and Not Flesh Nor Feathers, a trilogy of Southern Gothic ghost stories featuring heroine Eden Moore. Born in Tampa, Florida, Priest earned her master's in rhetoric at the University of Tennessee. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, Aric, and a fat black cat named Spain.

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