title: Tesla: A Biographical Novel of the World's Greatest Inventor
author:  Tad Wise 
description: Wise's engrossing and moving biographical novel of Croatian-born American inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) restores the luster to a visionary genius considered by many to be the true father of the electrical age. The son of a Serbian Orthodox priest who saw the dandified prodigy as a nihilistic blasphemer, Tesla went to work in 1884 in Thomas Edison's Manhattan factory, entrusting his brainchildren to his employer. But eventually he struck out on his own and, with George Westinghouse's backing, proved his alternating-current dynamo (upon which modern electricity is based) superior to Edison's direct-current system. Radio, X-rays, arc lighting, robotics, a particle-beam "death ray" and other inventions and blueprints poured from the fertile brain of this driven, grandiose, difficult eccentric who gave himself electrical "infusions" to boost energy and induce euphoria. In his first novel, Wise limns a marvelously evocative picture of trolley car-era New York City and of the dawn of the modern age as he charts Tesla's friendship with Mark Twain and his dealings with J. P. Morgan. When Tesla died, a penurious hermit in a seedy NYC hotel, the federal government--in Wise's telling--confiscated his personal effects. In an epilogue, the author calls on the FBI, CIA, KGB and other agencies to open their files so the world can determine the true extent of Tesla's scientific contributions. 25,000 first printing. <br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
  						    	
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zlib_text: # Where the Hell is Tesla?
  
  ### A Novel
  
  ##  Rob Dircks
  
  ![Goldfinch Publishing](Image00002.jpg) ![Goldfinch
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  Published by Goldfinch Publishing
  
  An Imprint of SARK Industries, Inc.
  
  www.goldfinchpublishing.com
  
  Publisher’s Note:
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
  coincidental. Use of Nikola Tesla as historical figure and character have been
  approved by William Terbo, grand nephew and last living relative of Tesla.
  
  Copyright 2015 Rob Dircks.
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without
  permission in writing from the author, except for the inclusion of brief
  quotations in a review.
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Rob Dircks, 1967-
  
  Where the Hell is Tesla? / by Rob Dircks
  
  p. cm.
  
  ISBN 978-069237