The Revenant Express, George Mann
The Revenant Express, George Mann
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The Revenant Express

Author: George Mann

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/12/2019


Synopsis

The grand adventure continues in Geroge 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?

About George Mann

GEORGE MANN is the author of the Newbury & Hobbes Investigations, beginning with The Affinity Bridge, and other works of fiction including Ghosts of Manhattan and official Doctor Who tie-in material. He edited the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction anthology series and The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.


Reviews

An enjoyable addition to the continuing adventures of Sir Maurice Newbury and Veronica Hobbes, the 5th novel of the series is a bit shorter than others. But it’s a welcome volume, due mainly to the resolution for the rather extreme cliffhanger from The Executioner's Heart. The book may be shorter, b......more

Goodreads review by Milou

Finally the time has come I get to write a review for this book. The wait has been long, so so long - especially considering the situation in which we left Miss Hobbes at the end of the fourth book. Sadly it didn't quite deliver. Don't get me wrong, this is still a great read. Newbury is a wonderful......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin

Feels a bit like filler, going from cliffhanger to cliffhanger. The actual goal is achieved anticlimactically, with the travel to it taking up all the pages, tossing crisis after crisis at the protagonists. Not bad, but not good, either.......more

Goodreads review by S.J.

This is an action-packed read, given that it is only just over 250 pages long. Mann certainly manages to keep the tempo fast and furious as both Veronica Hobbes and Maurice Newbury are both attempting to tackle a terrible threat. Although I enjoyed the excellent action scenes, particularly on the tr......more