Publisher's Synopsis
London, 1386: Sixteen corpses have been discovered in a sewer, their wounds like none ever seen before. Whoever threw the bodies into the sewer knew they would be found... Enter John Gower, poet and intellectual whose vocation is dealing in men's secrets. Against the backdrop of medieval London, Gower pursues his dangerous quarry and comes to the shocking conviction that the men have been killed by a new and deadly weapon of war.