An excellent
thriller set in Victorian times and around three major names – Prince Albert,
Jack the Ripper and Titanic.
The prologue is on
Titanic in 1912 as it is sinking after hitting the iceberg and a stranger is
telling a young lady an extraordinary story.
We then go back to
1888 to start the story. Prince Albert
has been indiscreet and had an affair with a young street girl which has
produced a baby. The local Masonic Lodge
has been asked by Prince Albert to sort things out to stop a scandal which
could cause a revolution in the country.
They hire in a hit man from America to eliminate all the persons who
could cause trouble and so the murders of young prostitutes start, provoking
the legend of Jack the Ripper.
The descriptions
of life in the slums of Victorian London are vivid with few pulled punches and
we learn of the inner struggle of the hitman with his normal self and his alter
ego with its killer instinct caused by seeing his family butchered by Indians
in the far west of America.
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