The Crying Machine

The Crying Machine
Greg Chivers

A sharp, lyrical thriller of power, religion, and artificial intelligence.The world has changed, but Jerusalem endures. Overlooked by new superpowers, the Holy City of the future is a haven of spies and smugglers, exiles and extremists.A refugee with strange technological abilities searches for a place to disappear.An ambitious young criminal plots the heist that could make or destroy him.A corrupt minister harnesses the power of the past in a ruthless play for power.And the wheels of another plan – as old and intricate as the city itself – begin to turn…

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Dedication (#ulink_e7f0b48a-65cd-5f61-93a5-5ad6e6a7dea6)

For Bea, Lucas and Charlotte

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Nothing like this instrument is preserved elsewhere. Nothing comparable to it is known from any ancient scientific text or literary allusion. On the contrary, from all that we know of science and technology in the Hellenistic Age we should have felt that such a device could not exist.

Derek de Solla Price, ‘Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

Contents

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Title page (#u43779239-cf63-5d85-87fc-d7b95c9c514d)

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Dedication (#ud27f3bd5-8ef1-577b-9cb9-8d474af74e01)

Epigraph (#u4551deb5-f8af-5797-ae3f-9911190e24f4)

Chapter 1. Clementine (#ub3e9c6ac-c69d-52a6-a1c2-1f45f4a7302a)

Chapter 2. Silas (#u6cb1314f-0aba-5eef-948c-15766908483b)

Chapter 3. Levi (#uf82eb355-bee5-5c6f-abe3-950c80b2de70)

Chapter 4. Clementine (#ubd97eb93-44ca-5b41-ad60-37443329cc63)

Chapter 5. Levi (#u7a63519b-562f-55ef-b064-5c15957a4606)

Chapter 6. Silas (#uf144b389-9753-587f-91b2-81b4fa6c3096)

Chapter 7. Clementine (#u3ed27aed-b38f-554e-8c8f-062d200628ef)

Chapter 8. Silas (#uf03e166b-05c0-52b4-922a-3d16cebbb71c)

Chapter 9. Clementine (#u19264735-d8a1-5753-a2de-5fe27e7f91d8)

Chapter 10. Silas (#u4634e4f4-93b3-5653-b68b-9e3e204a514c)

Chapter 11. Clementine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12. Levi (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13. Clementine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14. Silas (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15. Levi (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16. Silas (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17. Clementine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18. Levi (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19. Silas (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20. Clementine (#litres_trial_promo)