This is a dramatic and chilling tale told in the time zones of the present and future.  The almost animate physical structure of the State is revealed as it disintegrates around the lives of characters including a television evangelist looking for money and finding redemption, despite the stench of his own corruption.  A crazed media baron is embedded in his castle in the Channel Islands, at last realising his sexual and financial fantasies.  An American ex-private detective helps lead a hopeless band of scattered comrades in a modern and most definitely post -modern Britain.  The leader of the Labour Party resigns on the eve of her election in what seems to be an act of idiotic self-destruction.  The action swirls into the funnel of a whirlpool as an unimaginable catastrophe threatens the existence of humanity.  The survivors fight desperately to re-weave the social fabric, opposed by forces who struggle to restore the values of the thief and thug.  Fast-moving.

  Emotionally powerful.