In this alternate history novel, the Bubonic Plague sets the stage for aorld where the West is powerless. After the Black Death has wiped out mostf the European population, there is little defence against Turkish invasionnd expansion, and by the 1980s, the major world powers are the Russians, theurks, the Aztecs, the Incas, and the Japanese. However, the Turks have lostuch of their territory, leaving England to self-rule in a delayed Industrialevolution. Dan Beauchamp, a young Englishman whose heart longs for fortunend adventure, travels to industrial Mexico and discovers that he has a loto learn. From the city of London - better known as New Istanbul - to thentamed wilderness of North America, here is a high adventure in an alternateistory that is not to be missed.