Mark Hodder - The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi (Burton & Swinburne 4, epub)[j_ray]

The Beast is coming. History will be remade. Since the assassination of
Queen Victoria in 1840, a cabal of prominent men-including King George
V, HRH Prince Albert, Benjamin Disraeli, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel - has
received guidance from the Afterlife. The spirit of a dead mystic, Abdu
El Yezdi, has helped them to steer the empire into a period of
unprecedented peace and creativity.

But on the eve of a groundbreaking alliance with the newly formed
Greater German Confederation, scientists, surgeons, and engineers are
being abducted-including Brunel! The government, in search of answers,
turns to the Afterlife, only to find that Abdu El Yezdi is now refusing
to speak with the living.

Enter the newly-knighted Sir Richard Francis Burton, fresh from his
discovery of the source of the Nile. Appointed the king's agent, he must
trace the missing luminaries and solve the mystery of Abdu El Yezdi's
silence.

But the Beast has been summoned. How can the famous explorer fulfill his
mission when his friends and loved ones are being picked off, one by
one, by what appears to be a supernatural entity-by, perhaps, Abdu El
Yezdi himself?

Title: The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi
Series: Burton & Swinburne
Author: Mark Hodder
Published: July 9, 2013, by Pyr
Language: English
Genre: Steampunk
ISBN-10: 1616147776
ISBN-13: 978-1616147778
Length: 395 pages