Publisher's Synopsis
Forced to flee England and live in America during the 1890s, Professor James Moriarty - arch-enemy of Sherlock Holmes - returns to London in 1900 to find that his huge criminal empire has been infiltrated and plundered by the coming crime boss, Idle Jack Idell. As if this was not enough, he has evidence that one of his closest lieutenants, a member of the self-styled Praetorian Guard, is betraying him. Trying to re-form his old family, tempting "straying sheep" back into his fold, he engineers a plan to assassinate Idle Jack. But nothing is ever as it seems, and when things go horribly wrong, Moriarty is faced with an even bigger problem.
