The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers
Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.
It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London.
Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the
War Office--has no interest in the killings; however, his brother
Sherlock has developed a distasteful fascination for the macabre.
When a ship carrying cargo belonging to Mycroft's best friend Cyrus
Douglas runs aground, Mycroft persuades Sherlock to serve as a tutor at
the orphanage that Douglas runs as a charity, so that Douglas might
travel to see what can be salvaged. When a boy dies of a suspected drug
overdose Sherlock decides to investigate, following a trail of strange
subterranean symbols to London's squalid opium dens. Meanwhile a meeting
with a beautiful Chinese woman leads Mycroft to the very same mystery,
one that forces him to examine the underbelly of the opium trade that is
enriching his beloved Britain's coffers.
As the stakes rise, the brothers need one another's assistance and
counsel. But a lifetime of keeping secrets from each other may have
catastrophic consequences...