On September 29, 1913, Rudolf Diesel, traveling aboard the steamship Dresden mysteriously disappears overnight. As the famous inventor of a revolutionary internal combustion engine, his vanishing prompts worldwide speculation: accident, suicide, or murder? After all, Diesel’s engine’s success had made him adversaries with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil and the richest man in the world. The Kaiser wanted to harness the engine for a submarine fleet to challenge Great Britain's Royal Navy, but Diesel had intended it to be used for the betterment of the world. Now, New York Times bestselling author Douglas Brunt reopens the case and provides a riveting new conclusion about Diesel’s fate.    

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