"The clock is ticking!" In London, Department 18 Chief, Simon Crozier, is brutally stabbed and left for dead. Billionaire businessman Pieter Schroeder has laid his first card in a deadly, high-stakes game, a battle that will pit Department 18 against evils both ancient and modern. As the secret past of Department 18 comes back to haunt the present day, the team s future and Crozier s life hang in the balance when they confront an enemy who is powerful, malevolent and perhaps immortal. "