Alex is a professional chartered civil engineer with a keen interest in the arts—particularly drama and literature. It therefore comes as no surprise that Alex has chosen to write his first novel about the dramatic and remarkable life of an illustrious engineer from the time when Britain led the world in ingenuity and invention. This is the largely untold story of the father of one of the greatest, if not the greatest, engineers that Britain has ever known—Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
June 1821. Once admired for ingenious inventions that aided England’s navy, engineer Marc Isambard Brunel now lies broken in debtors’ prison. Though his innovations brought victory against Napoleonic France, accolades turned to accusations over his French roots. Now the fetid decay of King’s B...