Chance Is a Game

Myles Devereux is prepared to sell part of his profitable London business when the former monk Tasker offers terms worth considering. Before the agreement can be completed, attacks strike Devereux’s property and men. The timing points towards his established rival Garrison Bennett, but an unwritten truce has kept their competing organisations from open war and neither man can afford a conflict that leaves both exposed.

Devereux follows the money through taverns, debts and shifting loyalties, aware that the apparent buyer may be a front for someone who wants his entire network. Set amid the suspicion and religious instability of Mary I’s London, the mystery turns a commercial negotiation into a struggle over who controls information, violence and protection in the city’s unofficial economy.