Gibson’s Flume

Historical Thriller – Political Thriller – Historical Mystery

Every night, Geneva loses four minutes—and someone is using them to move weapons through the city unseen.

Geneva, 1784. Elias Diaz is a gifted journeyman clockmaker obsessed with precision, trained to believe that a perfect mechanism can keep an ordered city safe.

Then he finds something impossible inside Saint-Pierre’s great clock: a precisely filed piece of hardened steel that makes the master timepiece fall behind the sun.

At first, the error seems like an act of sabotage. But the missing minutes are creating a deadly window in the city’s laws, patrols, and river defenses. Somewhere beyond the locked gates, armed men are exploiting that gap to move contraband into Geneva—and a political conspiracy is gathering around the city’s most trusted machine.

As the clock drifts further out of truth, Elias must descend from workshops and bell towers into hidden waterways, secret arsenals, and the dangerous world of guild politics. His greatest obstacle may not be the men hunting him, but the secrets he has kept from his own master.

Because if the clock is telling a lie, how long can an entire city survive by believing it?

A dark historical thriller of mechanical intrigue, political conspiracy, moral reckoning, and relentless suspense.