Cherie Priest - Ganymede (Clockwork Century 3, epub)[j_ray]

The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although
he's happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money's good, he doesn't
think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly side-effects.
But becoming legit is easier said than done, and Cly's first legal
gig--a supply run for the Seattle Underground--will be paid for by sap
money.

New Orleans is not Cly's first pick for a shopping run. He loved the Big
Easy once, back when he also loved a beautiful mixed-race prostitute
named Josephine Early--but that was a decade ago, and he hasn't looked
back since. Jo's still thinking about him, though, or so he learns when
he gets a telegram about a peculiar piloting job. It's a chance to
complete two lucrative jobs at once, one he can't refuse. He sends his
old paramour a note and heads for New Orleans, with no idea of what he's
in for--or what she wants him to fly.

But he won't be flying. Not exactly. Hidden at the bottom of Lake
Pontchartrain lurks an astonishing war machine, an immense submersible
called the Ganymede. This prototype could end the war, if only anyone
had the faintest idea of how to operate it.... If only they could sneak it
past the Southern forces at the mouth of the Mississippi River.... If only
it hadn't killed most of the men who'd ever set foot inside it.

But it's those "if onlys" that will decide whether Cly and his crew will
end up in the history books, or at the bottom of the ocean.

Title: Ganymede
Series: Clockwork Century
Author: Cherie Priest
Published: September 27, 2011, by Tor
Language: English
Genre: Steampunk
ISBN-13: 978-0765329462
Length: 349 pages