“GAIMAN IS A MASTER.. NOBODY IN HIS FIELD IS BETTER THAN THIS." Peter Straub Richard Mayhow is a plain man with a good heart - and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment for he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations and sewe tunnels below the city- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has over known...