"When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer - and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. Fresh from liberating a strange alien object in Abyssinia - which might just be the mythical Ark of the Covenant - young Lucy Westerna, Holmes' protégé, must follow her own path to the truth while, on the other side of the world, a young Harry Houdini must face his greatest feat of escape - death itself.

As their paths converge the body count mounts up, the entire world is under threat, and in a foreboding castle in the mountains of Transylvania a mysterious old man weaves a spider's web of secrets and lies.

Airship battles, Frankenstein monsters, alien tripods and death-defying acts: The Great Game is a cranked-up steampunk thriller in which nothing is certain - not even death.

Performed by Steve Wannall, John Kielty, Jessica Lauren Ball, Chris Stinson, Peter Holdway, Julie Hoverson, Kevin Couto, Stewart Crank, Stephon Walker, Steven Carpenter, Taylor Coan, David Engel, Alex Hill-Knight, Wyn Delano, Christopher Graybill, Darius Johnson, Nanette Savard, Ian Putnam, Bradley Foster Smith, Nora Achrati, Ryan H. Reid, Rayner Gabriel, Robb Moreira, James Lewis, Rob McFadyen, Scott McCormick, Laura C. Harris, Elias Khalil, Andrew Colford, Richard Rohan, Michael John Casey, Drew Kopas, Matthew Pauli, Yasmin Tuazon, Mike Ciporkin, Eric Messner, and Terence Aselford."