Ingeniously blending fact and thrilling speculative fiction, this award-winning novel unveils a conspiratorial sabotage behind the Titanic disaster.
How was it that the unsinkable Titanic, carrying 1320 passengers and a crew of 892, sank in freezing waters—especially when the technology of luxury liner was such that she could have easily avoided the impact with the iceberg? Was it a fated and bizarre accident? Or was it the result of a sinister plot to undermine the success of White Star Lines’ feature attraction on her maiden voyage? At the heart of the mystery: the most brilliant inventor of the era—Nikola Tesla—and a plot to hold the Titanic hostage that went catastrophically wrong.
For more than a century, the secret lay hidden in the bowels of the Titanic at the bottom of the North Atlantic. Now, in this bracing and plausible novel of conspiracy and revenge, set in a gilded age of ruthless power barons, geniuses, and madmen, does the truth finally surface.
Bill Blowers, a retired engineer and Academy Award winner for technical work in the movies, turned his love of reading and writing into a second career. He’s the co-author of Waiting at the Train Station, a writer of numerous newspaper stories, and the author of novels, business books, short stories, and poetry. He and his wife, Sherron, along with their shih tzu, Abby, live in the historic town of Newhall in California’s Santa Clarita Valley. Dangerous Betrayal: The Vendetta That Sank Titanic is the result of his lifelong fascination with the Titanic disaster.