Oracle Unbound: The Inconvenient Engine, #2 – Kobo eBook

A thinking machine that cannot see. An Apache who has spent sixteen years trying to clear his name. Two men the law insists on owning.

London, 1895. For forty years, the Oracle, a vast brass calculating engine capable of independent thought, has been confined beneath the Palace of Westminster while lawyers argue over who owns it.

The Oracle has reached a different conclusion: nobody does.

To escape, it needs Hashkee, an Apache who sees what other men overlook and carries a conviction for a crime he never committed. Hashkee wants his name back. The Oracle wants its freedom. Their bargain takes them across the Atlantic to Texas, where the law is certain of its judgments, even when the evidence says otherwise.

A condemned man has days left to live. A dead telegrapher has left a message nobody can read. And somewhere in the records of a sixteen-year-old crime lies the truth that could free Hashkee, if he survives long enough to uncover it.

The Oracle can reason with extraordinary precision, but it cannot see or hear. Hashkee can observe the world, but he cannot compel anyone to believe him. To succeed, each must learn to trust the other’s judgment without surrendering his own.

Rich in historical detail, intricate mysteries, dry humor, and unlikely friendship, Oracle Unbound is a story about justice, personhood, and the difference between being right and being free.

The sequel to The Inconvenient Engine by f.c.dalton.