Eddie Fairfax's quest begins in London's rough and seamy east end and ends amidst the rustic beauty of England's bucolic Cotswold Hills, a mere morning's journey away. But in between, his obsession with finding an answer to a problem that has plagued him from his youth takes him on a long detour to America, lands him in a New York state prison, and plunges him headlong into mortal danger with an outrageously eccentric woman. Together, they chase a bizarre and unimaginable promise offered by a pilfered email to the medieval village of Chipping Campden, buried in the lush green folds of the...