Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy meets ancient magic, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance...
Poe’s Red Death returns, more powerful than ever. Can anyone stop him before he summons an apocalyptic nightmare even worse than himself?
In this second book of Tom Doyle’s contemporary fantasy series, the
American craftsmen are scattered like bait overseas. What starts as an
ordinary liaison mission to London for Major Michael Endicott becomes a
desperate chase across Europe, where Endicott is both hunted and hunter. Reluctantly joining him is his minder from MI13, Commander Grace
Marlowe, one of Her Majesty’s most lethal magician soldiers, whose
family has centuries of justified hostility to the Endicotts.
Meanwhile, in Istanbul and Tokyo, Endicott’s comrades, Scherie Rezvani and Dale
Morton, are in their own battles for survival against hired assassins
and a ghost-powered doomsday machine. And in Kiev, Roderick Morton, the
spider at the center of a global web, plots their destruction and his
ultimate apotheosis. After centuries of imprisonment, nothing less than
godlike power will satisfy Roderick, whatever the dreadful cost.