All the Chelsea union house board members are dead. Each burned alive from the inside out. The word in the street is the Devil has arrived in London and dispatches his enemies in an brilliant flash and unquenchable blaze. He wants the city. He wants the Empire. Chief Inspector Brett of the London Metropolitan Police along with his unconventional daughter Samantha and the Yankee crack shot Casey Prescott search the dark streets of Dickens's Old London to stop this madman before he can turn his new weapon on the city, the weapon called Morning Star.