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The Diamond Device: Accidental Capers, #1
The Diamond Device: Accidental Capers, #1
The Diamond Device: Accidental Capers, #1
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Semifinalist in the 2022 Self-Published Science Fiction Contest.

 

After diamond power promises to replace steam, an unemployed labourer and a thieving noble unite to foil an international plot and avert a war.

 

Alf Wilson resents the new technology that cost him his factory job, especially as his clockwork leg bars him from army enrolment. He daren't confess his unemployment to his overbearing mother. Desperate over the rent, he ends up in a detention cell with a hangover.

 

Impoverished Lord Richard Hayes maintains his expensive parliamentary seat by a mixture of charm and burglary. During a poorly planned break-in, he inadvertently witnesses a kidnapping. To cap it all, the police arrest him for the crime. At least he's using a fake identity. The real criminals make off with not just the professor who discovered diamond power, but her plans for a diamond-fuelled bomb.

 

When Rich encounters Alf in the neighbouring cell, he sees an opportunity to keep his noble reputation intact. He persuades Alf he's a secret agent who needs an assistant. This chance association will take them to the oddest locations. But law-abiding Alf's first assignment? Break Rich out of jail.

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Release dateNov 5, 2021
ISBN9781912819164
The Diamond Device: Accidental Capers, #1
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M. H. Thaung

M. H. Thaung grew up in Scotland and has drifted southwards throughout her career in pathology, ending up in a biomedical research institute (as a staff member, not a specimen) in London, England. After dozens of academic publications, she was tempted to venture further into "What if?" territory where her quirky characters explore impossible worlds.

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