Leviathan featured Nikoli Tesla in charge of multimillion dollars' worth of Royal Navy [British], and various Russian ships and equipment. Then he promptly got all the Russian stuff torn apart and destroyed, lost about 4/5s of the crew, all so that he could feed the half-dozen Russian fighting bears so they wouldn't break down his electrified fence to eat him.

And he has the Goliath tower in 'MURICA which, again, nearly killed the second airship and their compliment of crew of British origin, after they rescued Nikoli and hauled him and his research back to murica. 

Speaking of which, Nikoli is kind of the main asshole of that book series. He just kills everyone in his way without even knowing it.

But yea, genetics are weird, but some of the creatures are really cool
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