![]() ![]() ![]() As they strive to prevent future destruction, nothing less than the fate of the British Empire hangs in precarious balance.Ĭarnage comes early in Perry's engrossing Victorian historical, the follow-up to Seven Dials (2003), when Special Branch investigator Thomas Pitt is summoned in the middle of the night to the aftermath of a bombing, the work of unknown anarchists intent on wreaking havoc in London in revenge for high-level police corruption. The unlikely allies are joined by Pitt’s clever wife, Charlotte, and her great aunt, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould. To defeat Wetron, Pitt must run in harness with his old enemy, Sir Charles Voisey. ![]() As the shadowy leader of the Inner Circle, Wetron is using his influence with the press to stir up fears of more attacks and to rush a bill through Parliament that would severely curtail civil liberties. Clues suggest that Inspector Wetron is the mastermind. ![]() but by whom? As Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch delves into the case, he finds that there’s more to the terrorism than the brutality of misguided idealists. and presents us with moral and political puzzles that are all too close to our own.”- Los Angeles Times Book ReviewĪfter bombs explode during an anarchist attack in Long Spoon Lane, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot. “ Perry has once again delivered the tasty concoction her readers have come to expect. ![]()
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