![]() Tom frequently remembers his mother’s death at the hands of witchfinders and his forced separation from his wife and daughter. Scott Fitzgerald in Paris, where he plays piano at a hotel restaurant. He meets Shakespeare working as a lutist at the Globe. The flashback portions reveal Tom’s history from Elizabethan England to Golden Age Paris. Each section occurs in one setting and one timeframe, either in Tom’s present or his past. Within the first few pages, Tom is on such an assignment in Sri Lanka, but his target is already dead when he arrives. These assignments usually involve recruiting others with the condition or disposing of threats. ![]() As gratitude for the Albatross Society’s protection, each member must perform the occasional assignment. ![]() Those with the condition are protected by an organization that disposes of those who learn the truth. The general public is not ready for such knowledge human superstition is too rampant. ![]() His condition prevents him from aging at a normal pace he ages one year every 15 years or so. ![]() While he looks like an ordinary 40-year-old man, he has actually been alive for centuries. Tom Hazard begins his first-person narrative by describing his condition. ![]()
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