The newest addition to Warren Ellis' Apparat line of original graphic
novels has arrived! The year is 1907, and Britain has entered into a terrifying
war with Ruritania, whose strange metal planes darken the skies, and whose
monstrous war engines cast looming shadows from across the channel. Doctor
Robert Watcham, lately returned to London from the front, makes his homecoming
to Dilke Street. There lives his old friend, and England's greatest amateur
detective, Sax Raker. Even as his beloved city prepares for war, Raker is
himself about to embark on the strangest (and, perhaps, the most important)
investigation of his career: The case of the man who wasn't there. This is no
simple matter of murder - Sax Raker faces haunting questions to which there are
no cut and dried answers. Is the mysterious killer, at last, evidence for
Raker's long-held belief in a secret criminal mastermind? Is it some apparition
uniquely belonging to this singular city, a place that seems to have lost all
semblance of sense two years ago? Or do all the signs point to something much,
much worse?
Following up the huge success of Crecy, Ellis turns his spark of mad
genius to bring us a fantastical tale in this all-new original graphic novel
illustrated in detailed perfection by Gianluca Pagliarani.
