Ruby Sisson Library

"Denver cop-turned-bookseller Cliff Janeway has just paid a hefty sum to acquire a real gem; a signed first edition by famed nineteenth-century explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton. But does he truly own the rare book?" -- Cover.

Set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers, a story of courage and adventure brings to life the rivalry between two enemies--a decorated soldier, and a young aristocrat and Army officer--as they set out to find the mysterious headwaters of the Nile River.

Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king's agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection's black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the...

Investigators Burton and Swinburne return to Africa to seek the source of the Nile, a magic gem, and a way to fix history.

No One Travels Quite Like Richard Grant and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God's Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico's lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of an unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid in Zanzibar by thieves, whores, and a charismatic former golf pro before crossing...