**¿A GRITTY, BREATHLESS, SOMETIMES BEWILDERING TALE¿¿Publisher¿s Weekly
San Francisco 1899. A disgraced journalist attempts to save his career by following the trail of a grisly murderer terrorizing San Francisco. But he soon finds himself thrust into a mysterious world of feuding occultists and body snatchers, anyone of whom could be the killer.**
No one knows San Francisco¿s seedy underbelly better than Theodore Atwood. For years he¿s made his living raking through the muck for any story he can find, the more sensational the better, but nothing could have prepared him for the horrors to come.
Disgraced and hounded by his rivals, Atwood follows the killer¿s trail from a den of thieves and body snatchers to a secret society of spiritualists and occultists. But the deeper he digs the more grotesque and bizarre the case becomes.
As the city descends into a fevered nightmare around him, Atwood becomes ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse. One that will take him to the brink of madness and beyond¿