In the renovated docklands of South East London, on the bank of the river Thames, the doors from the Dusk are open for business. Wagers are called, cards are dealt and roulette tires spun. As fortunes are won and dropped, an inhuman killer stalks the neighborhood avenues and alleyways – a killer with a taste for individual flesh. Will there be more to casino owner Reggie ‘The Gent’ Mead or is certainly he only a common gangster? What secrets are concealed in the bowels from the Dusk? And what connection will the apparently sleazy Bermondsey casino need to a long-buried government initiative known as Task: Twilight? THE PHYSICIAN must type uneasy alliances where in fact the series between friend and enemy is blurred, playing games of chance… But are the stakes too much?