A spellbinding thriller from the bestselling author of
The Einstein Prophecy.
A chilling curse is transported from 1880s London to
present-day California, awakening a long-dormant fiend.
While on routine patrol in the tinder-dry Topanga Canyon,
environmental scientist Rafael Salazar expects to find
animal poachers, not a dilapidated antique steamer trunk.
Inside the peculiar case, he discovers a journal, written by
the renowned Robert Louis Stevenson, which divulges ominous
particulars about his creation of The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It also promises to reveal a
terrible secretβthe identity of Jack the Ripper.
Unfortunately, the journalβwhose macabre tale unfolds in an
alternating narrative with Rafeβsβisnβt the only relic in
the trunk, and Rafe isnβt the only one to purloin a
souvenir. A mysterious flask containing the last drops of
the grisly potion that inspired Jekyll and Hyde and
spawned Londonβs most infamous killer has gone missing. And
it has definitely fallen into the wrong hands.