Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didn t commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenly and equally mysteriously offered the means to escape. What, you may well ask, is going on?,It s a question Weaver asks of himself as he slinks out into the London night on a mission to clear his name. In doing so, he steps straight into a labyrinthine plot that weaves, like Benjamin, across eighteenth century London. For the conspiracy