Something is stirring in London’s dark, stamping out its territory in brickdustand blood. Something has murdered Saul Garamond’s father, and left Saul to payfor the crime.But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into Saul’s prison cell and leads himto freedom. A shadow called King Rat, who reveals Saul’s royal heritage, aheritage that opens a new world to Saul, the world below London’s streets — aheritage that also drags Saul into King Rat’s plan for revenge against hisancient enemy. With drum ‘n’ bass pounding the backstreets, Saul must confrontthe forces that would use him, the forces that would destroy him, and theforces that shape his own bizarre identity.