Dark as Dickens is the sixth book in Charles Stone Travel Mystery/Thriller series. The protagonist, a Boston lawyer, is discretely retained by Franklin Life Insurance Company to avoid financial disaster. He is secretly assigned to a planned survivalist community in Idaho to break up a plot by infiltrators to take down the United States power grid system and create utter chaos. Despite his varied professional expertise, there is a need to call on powerful assistance. Travel across Canada on the Transcontinental railroad and following the Lewis Clark Expedition on a Columbia River cruise ship adds extra excitement.