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City of the Saints
Series · 5 books · 2012-2013

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#1

Liahona

2012

1859; war looms over the United States. Intelligence agents converge on the Kingdom of Deseret in the Rocky Mountains. Sam Clemens, leading the U.S. Army's expedition aboard his amphibious steam-truck the Jim Smiley, has a mission: to ensure that the Kingdom, with its air-ships and rumored phlogiston guns, brain children of the Madman Orson Pratt, enters on the side of the United States and peace. Can he outrace and outmaneuver his British competitors, anxious to protect their cotton trade? And where are the agents of the treasonous, clandestine Confederate leadership? And why does the Madman seem to be playing his own game? Liahona is Part the First of City of the Saints, a four-part steampunk gonzo action adventure tale.
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#2

Deseret

2012

Sam Clemens arrives first in the Great Salt Lake City, and quickly becomes embroiled in events beyond his understanding or control. Meanwhile, Edgar Allan Poe faces off against an old nemesis, and the rift between the North and South comes to Deseret. Is Sam being played for a fool by the Madman Pratt? Will Poe's disguise withstand the scrutiny of his foes? And when the chips are down, which side will Richard Burton choose? Deseret is Part the Second of City of the Saints, a four-part steampunk gonzo action adventure tale.
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#3

Timpanogos

2012

Sam Clemens, Porter Rockwell, and Brigham Young have been kidnapped. As they struggle to escape, former enemies join forces to come to their rescue. Who will win the duel to the death between Tamerlane O'Shaughnessy and Jed Coltrane? Will Richard Burton, Edgar Allan Poe, and the femmes fatales of Deseret's counterintelligence service be a match for the Danite conspiracy that threatens the Kingdom? And will the heroes unravel Orson Pratt's plan before it destroys them all? Timpanogos is Part the Third of City of the Saints, a four-part steampunk gonzo action adventure tale.
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#4

Teancum

2012

Edgar Allan Poe is at death's door. He, Richard Burton, and their companions lie imprisoned in the cells of the Madman Pratt as he prepares to launch his air-ship fleet to bombard the Great Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, Sam Clemens and Brigham Young race across the Salt Lake Valley in the carriage of a Mexican Strider, desperate to get out the message that Young is not dead, and the victim of a coup. War threatens; battle erupts; the phlogiston guns begin to fire. Can the heroes avert disaster, and will any of them survive? Teancum is Part the Fourth of City of the Saints, a four-part steampunk gonzo action adventure tale.
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City of the Saints

2013

1859; war looms over the United States. Intelligence agents converge on the Kingdom of Deseret in the Rocky Mountains. Sam Clemens, leading the U.S. Army's expedition aboard his amphibious steam-truck the Jim Smiley, has a mission: to ensure that the Kingdom, with its air-ships and rumored phlogiston guns, brain children of the Madman Orson Pratt, enters on the side of the United States and peace. He races against Captain Richard Burton for Her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria, and Edgar Allan Poe, secret agent of the clandestine southern leadership, who travels in disguise as an exhibitor of Egyptian antiquities. Against them all are arrayed the counterintelligence agents of the Kingdom, Roxie Snow and the Deseret Marshal Orrin Porter Rockwell. But why are Deseret's Danite militiamen hunting Rockwell? And why does the Madman seem to be playing his own game?

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