Thomas Wheeler
It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the worldâ€™s 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 Londonâ€™s stormy Hyde Park, Konstantin Duvall, the Arcanumâ€™s founder, has been killed in a suspicious accident. Dismayed, the groupâ€™s longest-lived member, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, determines to avenge Duvallâ€™s deathâ€”and uncover the secret left in his wake. For the dead man possessed the worldâ€™s most powerfulâ€”now missingâ€”artifact: the Book of Enoch, the chronicle of Godâ€™s 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 Cityâ€™s Bowery and a series of deceptively disparateâ€”but decidedly connectedâ€”murders. 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 centuryâ€™s most famousâ€”and infamousâ€”figures, here is an extraordinary tale in which the stakes go beyond the realm of humankindâ€”into the divine.,From the Hardcover edition.
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The Arcanum