No one could answer the question of who Foster Adams was, where he was born and what kind of education he received, but he is the only one who can explain to you every smallest historical detail, right down to the last crumb of bread on the English menu in the 15th century, which is not no English history professor knows. This was his hobby. But as it turned out, what interested him most was not the details of people’s lives, but how people died. He devoted all the last years of his life to the study of human cruelty, methods of execution and torture. Realizing that humanity has not created a way to measure human endurance, he decides to undertake a most dangerous experiment...