Introduction

The details are hazy, but the debt must be paid. That much you do know. The year is 1912, and you, Booker DeWitt, find yourself being tossed about in rough seas aboard a rowboat hailing from an unknown port. The couple before you prattles on back and forth as if you aren’t even there, leaving you to mull over the contents of the box you’ve been given: a pistol, a key, a couple of postcards, and a message to bring the girl, unharmed, to New York City. There’s a question for every whitecap on the horizon, and not an answer in sight.