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...