Bad luck seems to follow Ewan Gilmore, a crewman on the steam liner Isle of Lewis.
As passions rise on board, the Lewis steams eastward into a maelstrom of stowaways, shysters, spies, death threats, traitorous allies, and a raging hurricane, with the mystery of the Bell Cannon at its eye..
No other ship will take the Skovajsas, but the Isle of Lewis can\'t afford not to.
The public want them gone, the press wants the full story, and agents from more than one country would kill for the prototype.
Meanwhile, rumor has spread that the professor was working on a secret weapon that would end all wars, and still has a prototype hidden away.
They\'re both still shaking from the trauma.
Skovajsová, Tereza\'s mother.
But somehow it killed a squad of soldiers, a general, two congressmen, the Secretary of War, and Mrs.
Not even they know exactly what happened during the professor\'s last experiment; he claims to have lost all memory of it, and Tereza can\'t - or won\'t - reveal what she knows.
The Skovajsas are being deported under a cloud of grief, suspicion, and fear.
Now, about to be left behind on the pier, he gets one last chance to prove himself - to masquerade as a passenger and serve as secret bodyguard for a certain Professor Jakub Skovajsa and his gifted daughter, Tereza.
It\'s a blot that makes him a pariah among the crew.
Bad luck seems to follow Ewan Gilmore, a crewman on the steam liner Isle of Lewis
