Alek feels something is wrong as they don't usually practice so late and night and they don't usually make it a point to sneak out of the castle. He is told that they are to do some midnight training on a "Walker" – a large metal clockwork war machine that walks on two legs and can be manned by a small team. One night, Alek is awakened by his master of ‘Mechaniks', Otto Klopp, and his fencing master, Count Volger. At the moment, Alek's parents are away surveying military maneuvers in Sarajevo. The world is on the brink of war and Alek, who is the son of an Austrian archduke, hopes to one day inherit his father's duties. Set in an alternate historical past based around World War I, Alek must team up with a crew of British Darwinists in order to escape German forces that want to kill him because he is a contender for the Austro-Hungarian throne.
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