“[Anne] Perry has once again delivered the tasty concoction her readers have come to expect . . . and presents us with moral and political puzzles that are all too close to our own.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review 
After bombs explode during an anarchist attack in Long Spoon Lane, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot . . . but by whom? As Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch delves into the

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First published in 1908, G.K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" has been described as a metaphysical thriller. It is the story of Gabriel Syme, who is recruited by Scotland Yard as part of an anti-anarchist task force. When he meets Lucian Gregory, a poet and member of a secret society of anarchists, he gains access to the underground movement. What follows is one of the most absurd and clever plots to ever have been written, one in which Chesterton's...

When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible and personally asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to track them down. Malloy is up to the challenge - but he faces a different kind of challenge when he encounters Sarah Brandt paying a condolence call on the Van Dykes. Faced with the impossibility of ever expressing his true feelings for Sarah, Frank had vowed...

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy pits utopian anarchists against rogue demon deer in this dropkick-in-the-mouth punk fantasy that Alan Moore calls "scary and energetic." Searching for clues about her best friend's mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa, and witnesses a protector spirit, in the form of a blood-red, three-antlered deer, begin to turn on its summoners. She and her new...

"For Annie, a young American painter, and Julian, the Portuguese banker and anarchist who is her lover, the events of that Paris spring are the backdrop against which their love affair is played."--Page 4 of cover.

Growing up on the banks of the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels trapped by the constraints surrounding him, until he falls for his new history teacher, Alice, a woman eight years his senior who becomes his first love.

"Retired and living a perfect life with Francesca, Owen Hardy gets pulled into one last mission, with his grandson, for the Watchmaker that takes them to the frozen lands of Ultima Thule, while Marinda undertakes her own mission compiling the story of the Watchmaker and stopping a new group of anarchists."--

"Captain Oswald Bastabel, ex-53rd Lancers and Special Air Police, finds himself hurled from the North East Frontier of 1902 in to the future world of 1973. He makes his way to London where he takes to the skies in the airship, the Lock Etive. Peace and prosperity reign, but not all of the British Empire's citizens support theis seeming stability. Caught up with an anarchist group led by barbarion warlord, O.T. Shaw, Bastable is forced to question...