Strange rumblings in the Great Eyrie of North Carolina and an impossible vehicle racing across American roads, waters and skies bring chief inspector Strock of the federal police to investigate. When the machine’s inventor sends defiant letters signed Master of the World, the government sets out to capture him, and Strock finds himself aboard the Terror.
Verne’s late sequel to Robur the Conqueror, darker about what power does to genius. Download the free EPUB.