A Fugitive Englishman

Edwin James reaches the height of his professional career in law when on the brink of being knighted legal scandals and debt force him to flee England with his new bride and attempt a new career in America. He finds himself recruited into Colonel Lafayette Baker's Secret Detective Service investigating Fenian activity in New York's hell-hole the Five Point. Forced to work with corrupt judges and policemen in New York he becomes involved with the most notorious fraudsters of the day and in the background the shadows of his scandalous past threatening to rise up and engulf him once more...