Augustus Crowe is not just a name. He is a man stepping out of the mist with a pistol, a tired horse and a better vocabulary than his victims. Set in the dangerous roads and uneasy shadows of the eighteenth century, this is the story of a reluctant highwayman born not from ambition, but from one fatal mistake. When Crowe discovers an abandoned carriage filled with jewels and money, he finds himself on a road from which there is no easy return. Before the legend, there was the mistake.