Sherlock knows that Amyus Crow, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark sec
rets. But he didn't expect to find a notorious killer, hanged by the US governme
nt, apparently alive and well in Surrey - and Crow somehow mixed up in it. When
no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it fo
r yourself.
And so begins an adventure that will take Sherlock across the oce
an to America, to the centre of a deadly web - where life and death are cheap, a
nd truth has a price no sane person would pay ...