This is a tour de force of language, a tale told in a realistic nineteenth-century voice full of slang and turns of phrase that make the milieu come alive. With a novel like this there's a tight line to walk between authenticity and understandability, but this manages it with each piece of new terminology understandable in its context neither bewildering the reader not requiring the narrator to break the tale to become a glossary for us. It makes for an entertaining picaresque as we transit through the underbelly of London in the company of a pair of 'resurrection men' and petty criminals, seeking their one big score to fund a better life elsewhere. An entertaining read, well worth your time.