#1 – A Conspiracy of Paper
London, 1719. Benjamin Weaver, a Jewish former prizefighter who now earns his living pursuing debtors and thieves, is asked to investigate the suspicious deaths of two stockjobbers, one of them his estranged father. The inquiry carries him through Exchange Alley, coffeehouses, gaming rooms and the city’s…
#2 – A Spectacle of Corruption
London, 1722. Benjamin Weaver is convicted of murdering dockworker Walter Yate after a corrupt trial and sentenced to hang. A stranger provides the means to escape Newgate, but freedom leaves Weaver hunted and unable to clear his name through courts that have already been manipulated against…
#3 – The Devil’s Company
London, 1722. Benjamin Weaver is blackmailed by the secretive Jerome Cobb, who threatens Weaver’s friends and family unless he steals documents from the headquarters of the East India Company. The robbery becomes an enforced infiltration, placing Weaver among clerks, directors, guards and competing factions whose records…
#4 – The Day of Atonement
Lisbon, 1755. Sebastião Raposa returns to Portugal under the English identity Sebastian Foxx, ten years after the Inquisition imprisoned his New Christian parents and forced him into exile. Trained in London by Benjamin Weaver, he intends to punish the inquisitor Pedro Azinheiro, but his plans become…