Fiddlehead [Dramatized Adaptation]

Cherie Priest

Jun 2020 · Clockwork Century Book 5 · Graphic Audio · Narrated by A Full Cast, Christopher Graybill, Terence Aselford, Eric Messner, Patrick Bussink, David Harris, Thomas Keegan, Delores King Williams, Tim Andrés Pabon, Michael Glenn, Doug V. Brown, Laura Harris, Nick DePinto, Steve Wannall, Elizabeth Jernigan, Richard Cutting, David Coyne, Joel David Santner, Jacob Yeh, Thomas Penny, Katy Carkuff, Emlyn McFarland, Dawn Ursula, Julie-Ann Elliott, Scott Graham, Steve Carpenter, Colleen Delany, Tim Getman, Andy Clemence, Kimberly Gilbert, Margie Tompros, Chris Davenport, Rebecca Sheir, Michael John Casey, Kenyatta Rogers, Eric Singdahlsen, James Konicek, Sunny Lasskey and Jefferson A. Russell

About this audiobook

Young ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but the job is less glamorous than one might think, especially since the assassination attempts started. Worse yet, they're trying to destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine called Fiddlehead, which provides undeniable proof of something awful enough to destroy the world. Both man and machine are at risk from forces conspiring to keep the Civil War going and the money flowing.

Bardsley has no choice but to ask his patron, former president Abraham Lincoln, for help. Lincoln retired from leading the country after an attempt on his life, but is quite interested in Bardsley's immense data-processing capacities, confident that if people have the facts, they'll see reason and urge the government to end the war. Lincoln must keep Bardsley safe until he can finish his research, so he calls on his old private security staff to protect Gideon and his data.

Maria “Belle” Boyd was a retired Confederate spy, until she got a life-changing job offer from the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Pinkerton respects her work, despite reservations about her lingering Southern loyalties. But it's precisely those loyalties that let her go into Confederate territory to figure out who might be targeting Bardsley. Maria is a good detective, but with spies from both camps gunning for her, can even the notorious Belle Boyd hold the greedy warhawks at bay?

About the author

Cherie Priest was born in Tampa, Florida on July 30, 1975. She received a B.A. from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee in 1998 and an M.A. in rhetoric/professional writing from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2002. She is the author of the Eden Moore series, The Clockwork Century series, and Borden Dispatches series. She won the PNBA Award and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Boneshaker.