The Beast has been summoned, history will be unmade
Freshly knighted by King George V for discovering the source of the Nile, Sir Richard Francis Burton has been made an agent of the Crown.
His mission is twofold: solve a series of high profile disappearances and, even more astonishing, locate the spirit of a dead mystic, Abdu el Yezdi, who has served the Crown as an advisor since Queen Victoria was so monstrously assassinated.
Burton and Swinburne are back – pitted against a cabal of dangerous men, facing seemingly supernatural entities while fighting for their very existence...
A former BBC writer, editor, journalist and web producer, Mark Hodder has worked in all the new and traditional medias. He was based in London for most of his working life until 2008 when he relocated to Valencia in Spain to de-stress and write novels. He can most often be found at the base of a palm tree, hammering at a laptop.
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