For the first time in paperback: the New York Times bestselling’Century’ trilogy sees our famous fraternity of meta-fictionalmarauders romping across the modern age, blending countless strands of Britishculture into a thrilling tapestry.The nineteenth century, expiring witha flourish of Moriarty and Martians, has left the division of MilitaryIntelligence commanded by Mina Murray in a state of disrepair. While she and herlover Allan Quatermain have achieved a measure of eternal youth, recruiting newtalents such as the trans-gendered immortal Orlando, the ghost-finder ThomasCarnacki and the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles to replace their deceased ormissing colleagues, former associate Captain Nemo has retired to his Pacificpirate island to decline in surly isolation. Now it is the early years of a newand unfamiliar century, and forces are emerging that appear to promise ruin forthe Murray group, the nation and indeed the world, even were it to take ahundred years for this apocalyptic threat to come to its disastrous fruition.From the occult parlours and crime-haunted wharfs of 1910, through the criminal,mystical and psychedelic underworlds of 1969 to the financially and culturallydesolated streets of 2009, the disintegrating remnants of Miss Murray and herLeague must combat not only the hidden hand of their undying adversary, but alsothe ethical and psychological collapse accompanying this new era. And a lot ofthings can happen in a CENTURY.
