The Affinity Bridge: A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation

George Mann

Tor Publishing Group, May 6, 2014 - Fiction - 336 pages

Get ready to follow dazzling young writer George Mann to a London unlike any you've ever seen and into an adventure you will never forget, in The Affinity Bridge.

Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by unfamiliar inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, while ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen, and journalists.

But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side.

Queen Victoria is kept alive by a primitive life-support system, while her agents, Sir Maurice Newbury and his delectable assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes, do battle with enemies of the crown, physical and supernatural. This time Newbury and Hobbes are called to investigate the wreckage of a crashed airship and its missing automaton pilot, while attempting to solve a string of strangulations attributed to a mysterious glowing policeman, and dealing with a zombie plague that is ravaging the slums of the capital.

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Contents

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: 7
• PROLOGUE: 11
• CHAPTER 1: 17
• CHAPTER 2: 24
• CHAPTER 3: 31
• CHAPTER 4: 42
• CHAPTER 5: 51
• CHAPTER 6: 63
• CHAPTER 7: 71
• CHAPTER 8: 82
• CHAPTER 9: 90
• CHAPTER 10: 104
• CHAPTER 11: 113
• CHAPTER 12: 121
• CHAPTER 13: 134
• CHAPTER 14: 142
• CHAPTER 15: 150
• CHAPTER 16: 160
• CHAPTER 17: 176
• CHAPTER 18: 188
• CHAPTER 19: 204
• CHAPTER 20: 216
• CHAPTER 21: 231
• CHAPTER 22: 238
• CHAPTER 23: 250
• CHAPTER 24: 255
• CHAPTER 25: 269
• CHAPTER 26: 277
• CHAPTER 27: 293
• CHAPTER 28: 299
• CHAPTER 29: 307
• CHAPTER 30: 316
• CHAPTER 31: 326
• EPILOGUE: 332

About the author

GEORGE MANN heads the editorial and production teams of two divisions of the UK-based Games Workshop: Solaris Books, a SF/Fantasy publisher, and Black Library, a publisher of game-related fiction. He is the editor of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction anthology series and the author of a number of fiction and non-fiction books, including The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, The Human Abstract, and Time Hunter: The Severed Man.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Affinity Bridge: A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation; Volume 1 of Newbury & Hobbes
• Author: George Mann
• Publisher: Tor Publishing Group, 2014
• ISBN: 1429960094, 9781429960090
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators; Fiction / Science Fiction / Crime & Mystery; Fiction / Science Fiction / Steampunk