Not, this time, with the protection of the Circle Pitt already made Voisey a pariah among his fellow cabalists, having maneuvered him into appearing to preserve Queen Victoria's place on the throne, rather than driving her from it. It seems that Sir Charles Voisey, former leader of the autocratic and secretive Inner Circle, and the man whom Pitt thought he'd routed in The Whitechapel Conspiracy, is making another grab for power.
But his help is too desperately needed by Victor Narraway, the shady head of Special Branch, that infant British service designed to rein in anarchists and revolutionaries. Pitt had been bound out of town for a two-and-a-half-week holiday in Dartmoor with his family. Now, in Anne Perry 's Southampton Row, he's yanked away from Bow Street again, this time to prevent dirty tricks by a ruthless republican determined to win a place in Parliament.
After achieving the post of superintendent at London's Bow Street Station, this Victorian police inspector's enemies had him removed from his command and reassigned to undercover duty in the indigent quarter of Spitalfields, where he wound up foiling a plot to end the British monarchy and connecting that conspiracy to the devilish doings of Jack the Ripper (see The Whitechapel Conspiracy, one of January Magazine's gift book picks for 2001 ). Thomas Pitt just doesn't seem able to hold onto a job anymore.
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