The volume examines the informal sources of English Law that lie undiscovered because they are not included in Statutes, law reports, or in current legal teaching. Through his work with primary documents the author shows that this informal source of law is too important to go unnoticed by legal historians and commentators.

Described as "adrenaline pumping adventure" as well as "a thinker's book," this is a fast-moving and provocative story about a young man given a chance to change the world.

Isaac Ward knows that a man should obey the law, protect his country, do what's right. But when an improbable corpse leads to an impossible device, these duties collide head on - and only one can win.

Dreaming of changing the world for the better, Isaac takes the device for himself. This is his chance to do something. Be someone. But he has his work cut out for him. The world is big, stubborn, and not so easily...