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 26 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 to the detriment
of his studies, much to Mycroft's frustration.
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. Sherlock finds himself at home among
the street urchins, and when a boy dies of a suspected drug overdose, he
decides to investigate, following a trail of strange subterranean
symbols to the squalid opium dens of the London docks. 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 find that they need one another's
assistance and counsel. But a lifetime of keeping secrets from each
other may have catastrophic consequences....
