Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell, and Nikola Tesla are all featured in the late-19th-century historical fiction drama, The Last Days of Night. The book is about the great inventors in the early days of electricity, sound engineering, and the “war of the currents” between AC and DC power technologies. It also features a young lawyer, Paul D. Cravath, who represented Westinghouse in many lawsuits against Thomas Edison over patents and inventions. Tesla is the mad genius who is ahead of his time. The author conjures a web of connected lives, fortunes, litigation, industrial espionage, and politics.
Other historical figures include American operatic singer Agnes Huntington, who married attorney Cravath in 1892. She played a role in Last Days both before and after her marriage. William Kemmler was the first prisoner executed in an electric chair, and the issue was whether to use DC or AC power. Without spoiling the ending for you, just know the execution did not go well. I enjoyed the book and can recommend the Audible version, expertly narrated by Johnathan McClain.