Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, som
ething that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and
perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature sudden
ly and impossibly disappears? For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headl
ong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins
. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biologi
cal rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god - A god that someone is hopi
ng will end the world.
