The White Cipher

Excerpt: Swirled in the maze of a slow awakening, dropped through an abyss from zenith to nadir, the prisoner came out of his dreams and stared through the bars of his door to the pearl gray of the coming dawn. C-45?better known in international underworld circles as Chester Fay, alias Edward Letchmere?was serving ten years at hard labor for the crime, committed against the peace and dignity of th...