For the first time in paperback: the New York Times bestselling
“Century” trilogy sees our famous fraternity of meta-fictional
marauders romping across the modern age, blending countless strands of British
culture into a thrilling tapestry.
The nineteenth century, expiring with
a flourish of Moriarty and Martians, has left the division of Military
Intelligence commanded by Mina Murray in a state of disrepair. While she and her
lover Allan Quatermain have achieved a measure of eternal youth, recruiting new
talents such as the trans-gendered immortal Orlando, the ghost-finder Thomas
Carnacki and the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles to replace their deceased or
missing colleagues, former associate Captain Nemo has retired to his Pacific
pirate island to decline in surly isolation. Now it is the early years of a new
and unfamiliar century, and forces are emerging that appear to promise ruin for
the Murray group, the nation and indeed the world, even were it to take a
hundred years for this apocalyptic threat to come to its disastrous fruition.
From the occult parlours and crime-haunted wharfs of 1910, through the criminal,
mystical and psychedelic underworlds of 1969 to the financially and culturally
desolated streets of 2009, the disintegrating remnants of Miss Murray and her
League must combat not only the hidden hand of their undying adversary, but also
the ethical and psychological collapse accompanying this new era. And a lot of
things can happen in a CENTURY.
