"A shakeup at the highest levels of the Ivory Tower leaves everyone wondering about the direction of the Salt Mine’s oppositional organization. Three days later, the annual meeting of the Dawn Club at the Yorkshire estate of Buttercrambe Hall is interrupted by a murder and a magical bomb. Agent David Wilson—codename Fulcrum—is assigned the case. With two powerful organizations effectively kneecapped in only three days, will it be long before the Mine itself is the target of enemy action?"