Excerpt: London Darkness: Infernal Inventions: Chapter 1

This is an excerpt from my third novel, Infernal Inventions.

Copyright © 2012 by Christopher Stocking

Infernal Inventions is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Ryker sat behind his iron desk in the corner of his laboratory. The smell of sulfur burned his nostrils, but he loved it. He leaned...