Who is this enigmatic figure, Nostalgo, whose grinning visage appears on posters throughout London? When a gruesomely disfigured body, strikingly similar to the posters face, mysteriously disappears from a police station, Jack Masefield finds himself thrust into an intricate web of greed, deception, and revenge. Determined to protect his fiancée Claire from her dubious guardian Anstruther, Jack peels back layers of dark deeds and dangerous secrets.