The fog over Whitechapel did not so much settle as suffocate. It came down from the Thames like a living thing, thick with coal smoke and the breath of a million souls, pressing against the gas lam...
Dr. Alistair Voss stood at the laboratory window of the Royal Institution, his fingers pressed against the cold glass, watching London dissolve into gray. He was thirty-five years old, the youngest fellow the Society had ever elected, and tonight he carried within him a secret that would unmake the world. On the desk before him lay the Dark Forest Monitor—a brass and glass apparatus of his own...
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