Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morrell's brilliant historical fiction thriller. Thomas de quincey, infamous for his memoir 'confessions of an English opium-eater', is the major suspect in a series of fero...Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morrell's brilliant historical fiction thriller. Thomas de quincey, infamous for his memoir 'confessions of an English opium-eater', is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier.