London.June, 1897.When Herron Strangways sees a man killed by a locomotive, he dismisses it as part of the rotten day hes been having.
Then he learns the victim was a secret agent whose death was murder, and Herron is the chief suspect.To save his own skin, he must elude the police and the real killers while untangling the clues to a plot to assassinate the Queen.
First, he must locate a woman he glimpsed briefly at the train station, who may unwittingly hold the key to unlocking the conspiracy.But who and where is she?
He must also discover a connection between terrorists planning a coup against the British government and an unidentified object flying over the United States, if one exists.