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.