The Shadow of Great Britain Novel

Arthur Hastings, a distinguished British civil servant adorned with the highest honors including the Order of the Garter and Victoria Cross, stands before an audience at the University of London's fiftieth anniversary. He is celebrated as an anti-colonial leader, war hero, Royal Society Fellow, and friend to literary and scientific giants like Dickens, Dumas, Faraday, and Darwin. Having risen through government ranks to become the first Cabinet Secretary, he is now his alma mater's most esteemed alumnus. Yet behind this venerable figure lurks Agares, a Red Devil whose wraith whispers temptations. When Arthur asks what he should say, the demon urges him to give the crowd what they want. Arthur obliges spectacularly, denouncing Oxford and Cambridge as bastards to thunderous applause. This is a tale of a devil-possessed protagonist navigating nineteenth-century Britain in a world devoid of magic, where respectability masks darker forces.