It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the worldâs major cities, the killing has just begun. In this perilous time, as the division between order and chaos grows increasingly slim, a select group of visionaries have taken it upon themselves to ensure the safety of humanity. They are known as the Arcanum.
In Londonâs stormy Hyde Park, Konstantin Duvall, the Arcanumâs founder, has been killed in a suspicious accident. Dismayed, the groupâs longest-lived member, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, determines to avenge Duvallâs deathâand uncover the secret left in his wake. For the dead man possessed the worldâs most powerfulânow missingâartifact: the Book of Enoch, the chronicle of Godâs mistakes, within whose pages lie the seeds for the end of everything.
From the scene of the crime, Conan Doyle embarks on a path that leads him to the sleazy underworld of New York Cityâs Bowery and a series of deceptively disparateâbut decidedly connectedâmurders. And as he calls upon the scattered members of the Arcanum for aid, he also finds himself embroiled in a story of war as old as time itself. Not of a struggle between countries, but between darkness and light.
Peopled with the twentieth centuryâs most famousâand infamousâfigures, here is an extraordinary tale in which the stakes go beyond the realm of humankindâinto the divine.
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