Rogue

by Kevin Kenny, Ray Ellingsen, Simon Gough (illustrator)

Having committed his most horrific murder yet, Jack the Ripper flees London for the shores of America. A “ by-the-book” investigator is set off by Scotland Yard on his trail. Except the investigator realizes there is only one certain path to stopping the world’ s most dangerous woman killer.

Straight from Scotland Yard In the autumn of 1888, five women were brutally murdered in the East End of London by a killer known only as Jack the Ripper. Just as quickly as he struck, the Ripper vanished off the face of the earth, never to be heard from again. Or so history would lead us to believe. What most people don’ t know is what happened next.

Scotland Yard Detective Andrew Somerset, a “ by-the-book” investigator, is given the horrific assignment of hunting down the Ripper at any cost. A job he is uniquely qualified for, as he is one of the few men who knows the Ripper’ s true identity. What’ s more, Scotland Yard doesn’ t want this murderer caught, they want him eliminated. What follows is a frenzied chase from the slums of London, through the alleys of New York, to the emerald paradise of Jamaica. As Somerset closes in, he discovers he must forsake everything he values, even the strictures of the law, in order to stop history’ s most infamous killer.

68 pages, Hardcover

Published July 15, 2025

About the author

Kevin Kenny is Professor of History and Glucksman Professor in Irish Studies at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in American History from Columbia University in 1994, where his dissertation won the Bancroft Award. He taught at the University of Texas from 1994 to 1999 and at Boston College from 1999 to 2018. His first book, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (Oxford University Press, 1998) examines how traditions of Irish rural protest were transplanted into industrial America. His second book, The American Irish: A History (Longman, 2000), offers a general survey of the field. A third book, Peaceable Kingdom Lost (Oxford University Press, 2009) analyzes the unraveling of William Penn’s utopian vision of harmonious co-existence between Native Americans and European colonists. Professor Kenny’s latest book, Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2013), examines the origins, meaning, and utility of a central concept in the study of migration, with particular reference to Jewish, African, Irish, and Asian history. He is also editor of Ireland and the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2004) and he has published articles on immigration in the Journal of American History and the Journal of American Ethnic History among other venues. His latest book, The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford University Press, 2023), explains how slavery shaped immigration policy as it moved from the local to the national level in the period from the American Revolution through the end of Reconstruction.