<p>The fifth novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring Johannes Cabal necromancer. </p><p> Johannes Cabal a necromancer of some little infamy has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal: a cure for death. The path is vague however and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that quite literally no one has ever seen before. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone so he must seek assistance comrades for the coming travails.</p><p>Assisted—ably and otherwise—by his vampiric brother Horst and by the kindly accompaniment of a criminologist and a devil they will encounter ruins and diableries mystery and murder the depths of the lowest pit and a city of horrors—London to be exact.</p><p>Yet even though Cabal has risked such peril believing he understands the dangers he faces he is still underestimating them. He is walking into a trap of such arcane complexity that even the one who drew him there has no idea of its true terrors. As it closes slowly and subtly around them it may be that there will be no survivors at all.</p>