The Fugitive and the Vanishing Man

by Rod Duncan

Elizabeth Barnabus (6), The Map of Unknown Things (3)

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Ladies and gentlemen, for the very final time, Elizabeth and Edwin Barnabus will perform the grand illusion of the Vanishing Man.

Elizabeth Barnabus is a mutineer and a murderer. So they say. The noose awaits in Liverpool as punishment for her crimes. But they’ll have to catch her first.  

Disguised as a labourer, Elizabeth flees west across America, following a rumour of her long-lost family. Crossing the border into the wilds of the Oregon Territory, she discovers a mustering army, a show more king who believes he is destined to conquer the world, and a weapon so powerful that it could bring the age of reason crashing down.

In a land where politics and prophecy are one and the same, the fate of the Gas-Lit Empire may come to rest on the perfect execution of a conjuring trick….
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Canonical title
The Fugitive and the Vanishing Man
First words
Standing in the washhouse cubicle below a glassless window, Elizabeth could smell the air from the waterfall thundering outside.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They both understood.

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Fantasy
DDC/MDS
823.92Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-2000-
LCC
PR6104 .U5377 .F84Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature2001-
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