First UK edition hardback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing. Read once very carefully. Price still on dust jacket. "Late spring 1728 and Thomas Hawkins has left London for the wild beauty of Yorkshire - forced on a mission he can't refuse. John Aislabie, one of the wealthiest men in England, has been threatened with murder. Blackmailed into investigating, Tom must hunt down those responsible, or lose the woman he loves