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Sir Richard Francis Burton: explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his job in tatters; his former partner missing and probably lifeless. Algernon Charles Swinburne: unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade; for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is wreck! They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting makes: engineers enhance the scenery with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier scientific wonders; eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labor; libertines oppose repressive regulations and demand a population based on beauty and creativeness; as the Rakes motivate the restrictions of human patterns to the restrictions with powerful, drugs, and anarchy. The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of the moral and moral vacuum when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to research assaults on young women devoted by a strange apparition known as Planting season Heeled Jack, and also to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End. Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age - and the terrifying probability that the planet they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!
