Behemoth

Behemoth / Scott Westerfeld ; read by Alan Cumming.-- [New York] : Simon and Schuster Audio, p2010.
8 sound discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Unabridged
Compact discs
ISBN: 9781442334106

1. Alternative histories (Fiction) 2. Genetic engineering – Fiction. 3. Imaginary wars and battles – Fiction. 4. Princes – Fiction. 5. Science fiction. 6. Steampunk fiction. 7. War stories.

813.54

On August 10, 1914 two German warships the Görban and the Breslau slip into the Dardanelles steaming for Istanbul to evade the British Navy and with the hope of bringing the Ottoman Empire into the Great War on their side. In this second volume of Scott Westerfeld alternative steampunk history of the war, the Germans have been pursued and attacked not only by the British Navy, but also by the flagship of its Air Service, the Leviathan, an enormous airship genetically engineered from a whale and several other species by Darwinist scientists. Aboard are: Deryn Sharp, a fierce Scots lass disguised as a boy and her unlikely new friend Prince Alek, the heir to the Austo-Hungarian Empire. Within days both are running loose in the Ottoman capital. While Deryn leads a secret sabotage mission, Alek intrigues with local revolutionaries in this fantastic adventure tale of what might have been. Cumming skillfully switches accents from Scots to English to German adding verisimilitude while keeping up the fast pace of the action.