King Scholar's Passage to Vauxhall Bridge Road

Lucas Bellator, intrepid political journalist. Growing up in a wealthy and privileged home, educated at the prestigious Westminster School, Lucas is destined for success from the very beginning. But something in him rebels at his predestined fine future and instead he joins The Daily Goblin tabloid newspaper just out of school, becoming an earnest political and business reporter under a sympathetic mentor. Accomplishing remarkable successes in exposes and quality reporting, Lucas travels the world, interviews the powerful and becomes one of the planet's most honored and respected and sought commentators. But he is haunted and tortured by his betrayal of a friend during his school days. Increasingly he also becomes aware how deeply corruption is infecting the world of honest and impartial reportage. As media ownership increasingly consolidates into fewer and fewer hands he finds himself pitted against vast corporate power and ambition. He is confronted by a corrupt press baron who seeks not only to rob him of his integrity but bribe him into selling his very reputation and soul. The offer and price are so immense that perhaps no man could resist.