John Taylor is the name. I work the Nightside. Only in
that dark heart of London where it's always three A.M.,
where human and inhuman can feed their darkest desire, do
I feel at home. Probably because I was born here. What I
do is find things—people, objects—and in this case, the
truth about the origins of the Nightside. That's what Lady
Luck has hired me to investigate. But the more I dig, the
more I discover, not about the Nightside, but about hte
great question in my life: exactly who—and what—was my
long-vanished mother. Paying jobs are one thing. Personal
quests are another. And I've been warned that uncovering
the facts about dear old mum could be a very bad thing,
not just for the Nightside but for all of existence. Still
I can't stop... I'm John Taylor. Finding things is who I
am. It's what I do. Whatever the consequence...