The Master of the World [Full Audiobook] by Jules Verne

Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the danger. When an automobile race in Wisconsin is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a vehicle traveling at multiples of the top speed of the entrants, Strock is consulted. When an odd-shaped boat is sighted moving at impossible speeds off the New England coast, Stock and his boss begin to wonder if the incidents are related. And when Strock gets a hand-lettered note warning him to abandon his investigation, on pain of death, he is intrigued rather than deterred.

Set in a period when gasoline engines were in their infancy and automobiles were rare, and when even Chief Inspectors had to engage a carriage and horses to move about, the appearance of a vehicle that can move at astounding speeds on land, on water - and as later revealed, underwater and through the air - marks a technological advance far beyond the reach of nations. It is technology invented by and for the sole benefit of a man who styles himself

00:00:00 - Chapter 1
00:15:41 - Chapter 2
00:32:12 - Chapter 3
00:55:21 - Chapter 4
01:12:26 - Chapter 5
01:29:36 - Chapter 6
01:40:51 - Chapter 7
01:58:30 - Chapter 8
02:18:04 - Chapter 9
02:20:24 - Chapter 10
02:34:56 - Chapter 11
02:53:28 - Chapter 12
03:11:30 - Chapter 13
03:29:32 - Chapter 14
03:53:29 - Chapter 15
04:11:40 - Chapter 16
04:23:08 - Chapter 17
04:48:36 - Chapter 18

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