´Gaiman Is a Master... Nobody In His Field Is Better Than This.´áPeter Straub.áRichard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heartand an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existeda dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city-a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known.