Dublin 1742

A body dragged from the river at midnight – a personal tragedy? Or a victim of political conspiracy?

Gangs roam the streets and a bomb plot is hatched…

Will Archer, in Ireland for the summer theatre season with David Garrick, faces danger from all sides in a country riven by factional rivalries and united in only one thing – hatred of the English.

As George Frederick Handel prepares for the opening night of his new work ‘Messiah’, can Will Archer foil a rebel terror plot before hundreds of people die? Or he himself gets killed?

From the bright lights of theatre to the night-shrouded Dead House – from Dublin’s broad new highways to its stinking slums – Will Archer is never far from sudden violence and divided loyalties in this, his second adventure.

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