In Watt O’Hugh Underground, the hero Watt O’Hugh returns to continue his boisterous adventure across the American West, time, and space to avenge the love of his life and save the American frontier from the most menacing of enemies. From engineering a train robbery to a showdown in a future dystopian and darkly magical mountain metropolis, Watt O’Hugh is a new take on the classic American frontiersmen.
Watt O’Hugh Underground is a rollicking tale of a man determined to avenge his lost love and do nothing less than rescue the emerging American frontier. His longtime adversaries are the fantastically menacing and mysterious Western settlers whose idea of manifest destiny is nothing less than the destruction of rugged individualism itself. From his first journey across space, time, and the American desert to the train robbery he engineers to save his country from its deadliest enemies, right through his showdown in a dystopian and darkly magical mountain metropolis, Watt O’Hugh is a new kind of American frontiersman. He is humorous but heroic, possessed of an ability to roam Time with ease and confront shape shifters with aplomb, and full of hard won and homespun wisdom as well as the capacity for love, romance, and awe. Even in those pages that follow the exploits of other characters—ranging from a Chinese poet sent to San Francisco on an inexplicable mission by the empress, to J.P. Morgan himself—the voice and spirit of Watt O’Hugh suffuse every word.
After the jump, check out the prologue to Watt O’Hugh Underground and be sure to check out the first Watt O’Hugh book, The Ghosts of Watt O’Hugh!!!
