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Watt O'Hugh Underground (Watt O'Hugh the Third, Bk 2)
Watt O'Hugh Underground - Watt O'Hugh the Third, Bk 2 Author:Steven S. Drachman Watt O'Hugh the Third has been many things in his life: Time Roamer, Civil War soldier, orphan of the New York slums, Wild West dime novel hero, and the only true love of the beautiful socialite Lucy Billings. — But by August of 1878, he is naught but a wanted fugitive, a drunken wreck and an angry army of one. Spending his days in the shade ... more »of an abandoned Death Valley shack, poring over maps, imagining a way to destroy his enemies and march out of their city carrying their heads on flaming spears. Plotting a solo military conquest that he knows cannot and will not ever succeed.
Until the day that Hester Smith beats down his such-as-it-is door and offers him his dreams of revenge against the monstrous Sidonian regime that has destroyed his life -- and one last chance at redemption. But first there is the matter of a rather urgent train robbery with which she needs his help, and, more to the point, the help of his ghosts ...« less