Lord Blackwood's investigation moved with the patient precision of a spider building a web.
In the days following the cellar meeting, he set his network to work with specific, carefully delineated tasks. Each watcher was given only enough information to complete their assignment, with no awareness of the broader picture. Blackwood had learned long ago that the best defense against exposure was compartmentalization ...if no single agent understood the full scope of the investigation, then no single agent could betray it.
His first priority was Corwin Brast, the raven tower handler who had been diverting eastern correspondence.
