Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life which is changed forever
when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness
propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks
and Richard has become one of them. Now he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and
darkness monsters and saints murderers and angels if he is ever to return to the London that
he knew.
