Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker\'s late assistant, leading them to a rare and secret Text stolen from a Nanking monastery.
K\'ing, Barker and Llewelyn take readers on a perilous tour through the mean streets of turn-of-the-century London..
Prowling through an underworld of opium dens, back-room blood sports, and sailors\' penny hangs while avoiding the wrath of the district\'s powerful warlord, Mr.
With the political situation between the British Empire and Imperial China already unstable, the duo must not only track down a killer intent upon gaining the secret knowledge but also safeguard the Text from a snarl of suspects with conflicting interests.
There they retrieve an innocent-looking book that proves to be a rare and secret Text stolen from a Nanking monastery, containing lethal martial arts techniques forbidden to the West.
In The Limehouse Text, Barker and Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker\'s late assistant, leading them to London\'s Chinese district, Limehouse.
The duo must not only track down a killer intent upon gaining the secret knowledge but also safeguard the Text from a snarl of suspects with conflicting interests.
Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker\'s late assistant, leading them to a rare and secret Text stolen from a Nanking monastery
