Manuel O'Bean

Born in Chile, the son of an Irish engineer and a Chilean heiress. A child prodigy with a genius for mechanics, by his fifteenth birthday he had already invented new mining, farming and war-machines. These, along with new power sources and engines, were to transform the world, enabling the poorer countries to realise their potential, but eventually leading in The Land Leviathan to a world war.

It had been thought he had committed suicide at the outbreak of war, but at the time Oswald Bastable was attached to the army of General Cicero Hood it was learned he was working for the Australasian-Japanese Federation, believing the New Ashanti Empire posed a grave threat to the world.

Inventions of O'Bean

• O'Bean Mark Five Tunneler - A machine that travels underground, used by Una Persson and Bastable after he rescued her from East Grinstead. (See also Earth Chariot from The Sword of the Dawn)

Appeared in

• The Mystery of the Texas Twister as Luis O'Bean the Brazilian Wizard

Mentioned in

• The English Assassin
• The Condition of Muzak
• The Land Leviathan
• The Steel Tsar
• The White Pirate
• King of the City

Notes

• Was on the attendance list of The Reunion Party
• Mentioned as Rose's father