The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to investigate assaults on young women committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack, and to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End. Algernon Charles Swinburne: unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting forces: engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier technological wonders eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labor libertines oppose repressive laws and demand a society based on beauty and creativity while the Rakes push the boundaries of human behavior to the limits with magic, drugs, and anarchy. Sir Richard Francis Burton: explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman his reputation tarnished his career in tatters his former partner missing and probably dead.
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