the league of extraordinary gentlemen volume 1

Mack the Knife, and immediately takes to murdering prostitutes again, one of whom looks suspiciously like Louise Brooks. Jack the Ripper, who is a direct descendant of the 18th-century highwayman MacHeath a.k.a.

Arriving on the same ship as Janni is Jack MacHeath a.k.a. The ship takes her to London where she takes up employment at a wharf side hotel under the name Jenny Diver. Spying a passing ship, she swims towards it and stows away upon it. Janni refuses and leaves her father's side. He asks his estranged daughter, Janni Dakkar, to resume his name and calling after his death. In 1910, twelve years after the extraterrestrial invasion of England and the disbanding of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Captain Nemo lies on his deathbed in Lincoln Island. Now it is the early years of a new and unfamiliar century, and forces are emerging that appear to promise ruin for the Murray group, the nation, and indeed the world, even were it to take a hundred years for this apocalyptic threat to come to its disastrous fruition.įrom the occult parlours and crime-haunted wharfs of 1910, through the criminal, mystical, and psychedelic underworlds of 1969 to the financially and culturally desolated streets of 2009, the disintegrating remains of Miss Murray and her League must combat not only the hidden hand of their underlying adversary, but also the ethical and psychological collapse accompanying this new era.Īnd a lot of things can happen in a CENTURY.' Raffles to replace their deceased or missing colleagues, former associate Captain Nemo has retired to his Pacific pirate to decline in surly isolation. While she and her lover Allan Quatermain have achieved a measure of eternal youth, recruiting new talents are the trans-gendered immortal Orlando, the ghost-finder Thomas Carnacki, and the gentlemen thief A.J.

'The nineteenth century, expiring with a flourish of Moriarty and Martians, has left the division of Military Intelligence commanded by Mina Murray in a state of disrepair.

The league of extraordinary gentlemen volume 1