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London, 1679 - A year has passed since the attempt to murder King Charles II, but London is still a viper's nest of rumored Catholic conspiracies, and of plots against them in turn. When Harry Hunt—estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke—is summoned to the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk, he is at first relieved to get away from the place. But in Norfolk, he finds that some Royal workers shoring up a riverbank have made a grim discovery—the skeleton of a dwarf.

The City of London, 1678. New Year’s Day. Twelve years have passed since the Great Fire ripped through the City. Eighteen since the fall of Oliver Cromwell and the restoration of a King. London is gripped by hysteria, and rumors of Catholic plots and sinister foreign assassins abound. When the body of a young boy drained of his blood is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and his assistant Harry Hunt, are called in to explain such a ghastly finding.

Londres, 1678. Le corps d'un jeune garçon est retrouvé sur les rives de la Fleet River, entièrement vidé de son sang. À ses côtés, un étrange cryptogramme, qui suscite nombre d'interrogations. Complot religieux ? Politique ? Tueur isolé ? Dépêché sur les lieux, Robert Hooke, éminent scientifique de la Société royale de Londres, doit faire face à une enquête aussi délicate que complexe.