A lot of people know that the city of Seattle burned down in 1889. And it s common knowledge that when it was rebuilt, much of the old city remained, buried beneath the modern streets. But nobody really knows what s down there any more... Now a suspected psycho and the eight-year-old girl he s taken hostage during a bungled heist are about to find out, when they crash through the floor of an abandoned warehouse into a street no one has walked down for a hundred years.Pursued by an ex-Vietnam Tunnel Rat brought in by the Seattle PD - a man with one or two mental problems of his own - Hilton Badcock has no choice but to drag young Ali further into the underground maze in search of a way out. But the deeper they go into this strange, secret world, the weirder and more dangerous things get...