'Intricate and crisp; witty and solemn' Hilary Mantel; Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall on Rotherweird APOCALYPSE NOW? Geryon Wynter; the brilliant Elizabethan mystic; has achieved resurrection and returned to present-day Rotherweird. But after the chaos of Election Day; how can a stranger from another time wrest control? And for what fell purpose is Wynter back? His dark conspiracy reaches its climax in this unique corner of England; where the study of history is forbidden and neither friend nor foe are quite what they seem. The stakes could not be higher; for at the endgame; not only Rotherweird is under threat. The future of mankind itself hangs in the balance. 'Baroque; Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold. An enthralling puzzle picture of a book' M. R. Carey; bestselling author of The Girl With All The Gifts on Rotherweird