Death and Beauty, Magic and Lord Francis Damory’s Quest for the Elixir of Immortality In the brothels and debtors’ prisons of Georgian London and the gilded salons of the Ancien Règime... Through love affairs and deadly duels, among courtesans and castrati, alchemists and anatomists, visionaries, monsters, charlatans and spies... From Paris to Venice and across the pirate-infested Mediterranean to Egypt, Cyprus and distant Constantinople in pursuit of his mysterious ancestor Tobias the Alchemist, who may yet still be alive.