The plague is spreading across Europe a plague as vile and vicious as the plagues of the middle ages. It is a plague more virulent than any childhood disease: everyone will catch it; everyone who catches it will die. But this is no ordinary plague: it is the work of a sorcerer a man of exactly the stripe as Boothby's infamous villain, Nikola. One man knows how it's spread. One man can stop it if he can face Pharos, The Egyptian. If he dares, for the life of the world.