The Explosionist (formerly known as dynamite no. 1) is the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in an alternate version of 1930s edinburgh. There, the legacy Of Napoleon's victory a century earlier at waterloo is a sta...The Explosionist (formerly known as dynamite no. 1) is the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in an alternate version of 1930s edinburgh. There, the legacy Of Napoleon's victory a century earlier at waterloo is a standoff between a totalitarian federation of European states and a group of independent northern countries called the new hanseatic league.