At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver, has left New York for Charles Town on an assignment from his agency-and vanished. As his friend Hudson Greathouse, sets out to track him down, he has no idea that Matthew is across the sea in London's notorious Newgate Prison, accused of murdering a Prussian count and targeted by a masked vigilante. Now Hudson, accompanied by Matthew's beloved Berry Grigsby, must sail to England in hopes of saving him in time...
