Something impossible is stirring in the mountains of North Carolina. The Great Eyry, a lone peak rising from the ridges near the Virginia border, has begun to smoke and rumble, sending tremors of fear through the surrounding valley. When the governor calls upon John Strock, a sharp-witted detective from Washington, to investigate, he arrives expecting a straightforward inquiry into geological disturbance. What he finds instead is far stranger: a legendary flying machine, its reclusive inventor, and a question that will determine the fate of the world. This is Jules Verne at his most audacious, weaving a tale of technological marvel and moral reckoning into a thriller that rockets across continents and challenges the very nature of human ambition. The stakes are nothing less than mastery over the planet itself, and the answer to who holds that power will leave you breathless.
