Publisher's Synopsis
1848, and Lukitt Bachmann is waiting in his Lanterne des Mortes in a cemetery in the dead of night.
All around him Europe is tumbling into riot and revolution.
He's had a complicated life: son of a Herrnhuter thrown out of his sect.
Become sequentially sailor, fisherman, boar-hunter.
And latterly a murderer, pulled on by men pursuing the Knights Teutonic and the bone-chapels they left behind.
Set on his course by witnessing a theatrical version of The End of the World, he wonders if this final wait in the Tower of the Dead will be his own end of the world, or bring him the chance of rescue and redemption he so desperately needs.
