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"Donald Thomas may be the all-time greatest at Sherlockian pastiche."—Ellery King Secret MagazineIn an important amount of British history, Donald Thomas’s newest Sherlock Holmes adventure sets the Truly Amazing Detective and his devoted biographer, Dr. John Watson, against a global conspiracy led by a disgraced Language officer.  Colonel Hunter Moran contains upon him “The Mark of the Beast”; his satanic genius leaves a magnificent path of devastation.  It runs in the destruction of the British armored line by Zulu tribesmen armed only with shields and spears, to some life-and-death battle to the tragedy passenger machine Comtesse de Flandre.   The heir to the French Kingdom lies lifeless in the African dust.  Europe is delivered to the edge of battle by solid despatches, made to improve gun-athletes and assassins.  The gold-fields and diamond mines of South Africa get to be the playground of structured crime.  Just the investigator guru of Holmes could show a match for your unfolding criminality of Moran and his associates.  With Watson and Mycroft at his part, Sherlock Holmes again shows even though powers of their state and the underworld might attempt to overcome him, they won't ever out-consider his marvelous logical brain at the peak of its powers.