The Iron Assassin by Ed Greenwood is $3.99 at Amazon US.
$4 is expensive for a bargain to share here, but it is the cheapest the book has gone. And I'm curious to see how the creator of The Forgotten Realms stands up outside of D&D. Reviews say: try again. But I'll buy it anyway.)
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From Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood comes The Iron Assassin, a steampunk thriller.
Victoria never ascended the throne; the House of Hanover held England only briefly before being supplanted by the House of Harminster. It is a time of gaslamps and regularly scheduled airship flights, of trams and steam-driven clockwork with countless smoke-belching stacks. London, the capitol of the Empire of the Lion, is a filthy, crowded, fast-growing city where a series of shocking murders threatens the throne itself.
Energetic young inventor Jack Straker believes he has created a weapon to defend the Crown: a reanimated, clockwork-enhanced corpse he can control. He introduces "the Iron Assassin" to the highly placed Lords who will decide if Straker's invention becomes a weapon of the Lion-or something to be destroyed.
It quickly becomes apparent that the Iron Assassin is more self-willed than Straker intended, and that the zombie's past life is far more sinister than Straker thought. Has he created a runaway monster? Or the best guardian the Lion could ever hope for?
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