Assassin's Creed: Underworld
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Assassin's Creed: Underworld is a novel written by Oliver Bowden released on 1 November 2015. The novel follows Henry Green during an assignment in 1862, before concluding with the storyline of Evie Frye from Assassin's Creed: Syndicate.
Official synopsis
"A disgraced Assassin. A deep-cover agent. A quest for redemption.
1862, and with London in the grip of the Industrial Revolution, the world's first underground railway is under construction. When a body is discovered at the dig, it sparks the beginning of the latest deadly chapter in the centuries-old battle between the Assassins and Templars.
Deep undercover is an Assassin with dark secrets and a mission to defeat the Templar stranglehold on the nation's capital.
Soon the Brotherhood will know him as Henry Green, mentor to Jacob and Evie Frye. For now, he is simply The Ghost."
Plot summary
Part 1: Ghost Town
1- The Assassin Ethan Frye was watching and tracking a target in a market.
2- The thief and courier Boot was headed down to deliver photographic plates in the St. Giles Rookery when he was threatened and interrogated with a Hidden Blade by Ethan.
3- Boot was about to reveal his boss' identity when he was shot by an unidentified individual. The man also tried to shoot Ethan, however, the bullet killed an innocent girl bystander. Enraged, Ethan chased and assassinated the man, who was revealed to be Boot's boss and Templar associate Robert Waugh. Later, Ethan reported the incident to his friend George Westhouse. The pair formulated a plan involving The Ghost and the corpse of Waugh to uncover the Templar plans.
4- The chief engineer John Fowler recollected his memories regarding the construction of the first underground railway. Touring the construction with his friend and solicitor Charles Pearson and his wife, they discovered the body of Robert Waugh in one of the construction trenches.
5- The manager Marchant informed the director Cavanagh of the crime, and Police Constable Frederick Abberline was called to inspect the crime scene. Abberline discovered that the cause of death was a clean stab wound. Despite Mary Pearson's request to delay the construction due to the death, Charles and Cavanagh insisted to continue the work. However, The Ghost, witnessed a look of recognition in Cavanagh as the latter gazed in the corpse. The Ghost signaled a drunk man after Abberline left with the corpse.
6- Reaching Belle Isle, Abberline tried to avoid the curious street children and eventually reached the mortuary yard. However, he discovered that Waugh's body had been replaced by a dead pony's corpse.
7- The Ghost returned home, passing by Marylebone Church to check messages. Sure enough, he learned that his handler wanted to see him. He returned to the Thames Tunnel and met with his friends Charlie, Jake and Maggie.
8- Remembering his childhood in Amritsar, India, Jayadeep/The Ghost recalled his father, Arbaaz, stories and his time training with Ethan Frye.
9- Jayadeep recalled the first time he met Maggie: by saving her in Marylebone Church from five men who was beating her.
10- Ethan revealed to Arbaaz that Jayadeep had a weakness with violence and that he could never be an Assassin. Angered, Arbaaz told Jayadeep to prove Ethan wrong, despite Pyara Kaur's pleas. Jayadeep, desperate to please his father, agreed.
11- Six years after Ethan's departure, he sent a letter to Arbaaz, telling him about Evie, Jacob and Jayadeep's fate by letting them choose their own path instead of instilling them to their image.
12- Arbaaz, confident with his son's skills, refuses Ethan's request and wrote him a letter about the matter.
13- An internal dispatch was sent to George Westhouse for Ethan Frye regarding Jayadeep Mir's presence in The Darkness.
14- Ethan immediately went to The Darkness to interrogate Jayadeep who told him that he hesitated to assassinate the Templar Tjinder Dani and had awoken him in the process. Arbaaz was forced to interfere and kill the target and the oncoming guards due to his failure.
15- Ethan asked Arbaaz to save Jayadeep's life by banishing him to London under the alias "The Ghost".
16- Jayadeep once again recalled his first meeting with Maggie. Maggie had saved him from one of her attackers because he hesitated once again to kill. He then invited her to stay in the Thames Tunnel.
17- Abberline returned to Belle Isle and bribed the children for him to know who stole the body: a robed man with a cowl.
18- Before leaving for London, Ethan gave Jayadeep the name Bharat Singh and some money. He told him to survive on his own and to blend in with the poor until Ethan sends for me.
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