RatcatcherRegency London is vividly brought to life in this extraordinary page turner, the first in a series of historical thrillers featuring Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood a dangerous, sexy and fascinating hero. Hunting down highwaymen was not the usual preserve of a Bow Street Runner. As the most resourceful of this elite band of investigators, Matthew Hawkwood was surprised to be assigned the case even if it did involve the murder and mutilation of a

fuelled by the addictive drug Zeal

Things have changed - no Eva Braun

rich and poor: all of Indian life - the 'sorrowful parade of humanity' - is here

the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously

as well as a creeping understanding that

As Famie starts to receive mysterious messages

Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something

Cadiz is a hotbed of rumours and shifting political alliances in this

evidence suggests that it is that of teenager Molly James

she has sent her six children and an army of water rats out into the world to plunder treasure to adorn her palace

still plagued by secrets that refuse to die

Ballards own childhood