Description
London in 1900 is a sprawling, chaotic web of change and expansion, perfect for a man like Denton, an American with a violent past seeking anonymity as an outsider. But his notoriety as the author of several dark novelsโand the well-known story that, decades before, he had gunned down four men in the American Westโsometimes brings unwanted visitors to his door. When a terrified man shows up one evening and says that he is being pursued by the long-gone Jack the Ripper, Denton dismisses him as one more victim of Londonโs lunacy. But then the mutilated body of a teenaged prostitute named Stella Minter is found in Londonโs East End. . . .
Disappointed by the lack of police concern, Denton determines to pursue the murderer, even after itโs clear that heโs become the next target. As Denton begins to peel away the layers of the lurid and horrifying murder, he finds himself exploring the dark underbelly of the bursting metropolis, a place so vast that Denton is forced to follow nothing but his instincts through the maze of Londonโits pubs, its police offices, its dark alleys and disreputable neighborhoodsโto find a murderer who is himself an agent of the cityโs cancerous growth. And along the way Denton is lucky enough to find an ally in a woman with a past as haunted and a spirit as independent as his own.
ISBN:9780752883953
