<P><B>The third entry in this acclaimed series centers on political intrigue, terrorism 1900s-style, and the beginnings of the British Secret Intelligence Organisation, as London becomes a hotbed of anarchist plotting</B></P><P>1903. Denton is summoned back to London by telegram from a country-house shoot to find a woman named Lydia Alken has been brutally murdered—in his own back garden. But forces other than the police are at work to solve the crime, or rather, make it disappear. This is not the first time Denton has found himself drawn into an investigation—and he wants to keep his lover Janet, who lives close by, out of the tangled web. She has already spent time in prison and is determined not to go back. But involving himself in the life and death of Lydia Alken will prove more dangerous than he could have imagined, as Denton himself falls victim to the fledgling British Intelligence Service and discovers exactly what the price of freedom really is, while the real story of Lydia Alken's murder provides the biggest shock of all.