The Transatlantic Threat

In the second volume of the series, as France seemed headed for war with England over colonial disputes in Africa, the secret cabal of American billionaires, led by William Boltyn, schemes to stop French scientist Arsene Golbert from completing his plans for a subatlantic railway. Meanwhile, in his secret citadel of science hidden in the Rocky Mountains, mad engineer Hattison has created an invincible army of "iron men," robots that will ensure the billionaires' victory...
The Dominion of the World (1900) represents a transition from classic Vernian anticipation to the pulp serials of the 1920s and 1930s. It is also the only science fiction work that sought to dramatize the "Transatlantic Peril," positing a fundamental difference of culture and attitude between the United States and Europe. Despite some of its outlandishness, hindsight has lent the world imagined by Gustave Guitton and Gustave Le Rouge (The Vampires of Mars) a certain prophetic quality.
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La Conspiration des milliardaires (Paris: Guyot, 1899 and 1900) with Gustave Guitton [published in three volumes]
Translated, annotated and introduced by Brian Stableford [title paqe]
English adaptation and introduction by Brian Stableford [Copyright page]
--Stableford in general is a translator for BCP formally. Real translators are anonymous [i.e. cheap].
Cover illustration by Gilles Francescano