I’ll wait, while the librarians amongst us recover themselves.Ĭaught by a Mirkarvian Count, Cabal uses his necromancer skills to distract the Count and escape by assuming the persona of a bureaucrat, Herr Meissner. “Cabal had been caught trying to check out a book from the library… The book was in the Special Collection, and Cabal had intended the loan to be of an extended, open-ended sort of period.” Of course, he didn’t only mean to read it: Safe to say, no one has gone through such travails to read a book as Johannes Cabal. Steampunk meets the classic Sherlockian mystery in this rip-roaring adventure where anything could happen. There will be massive destruction, not to mention resurrected dead. Before they are done, there will be more narrow escapes, involving sword fighting and newfangled flying machines. His minor efforts result in a vicious attempt on his own life-and then the gloves come off.Ĭabal and Leonie-the only woman to ever match wits with him-reluctantly team up to discover the murderer. But when a fellow passenger throws himself to his death, or at least that is how it appears, Cabal begins to investigate out of curiosity.

The deception seems perfect, and Cabal looks forward to a quiet trip and a clean escape, until he comes face-to-face with Leonie Barrow, an enemy from the old days who could blow his cover.

Stealing the identity of a minor bureaucrat, Cabal takes passage on the Princess Hortense, a passenger aeroship that is leaving the country. This time he’s on the run from the local government. In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the world. Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue.

Johannes cabal the detective