Horatio Goodman appears beset by large decisions that make themselves around him whilst he ties his shoe laces. He has made the unlikely swap from store detective to private detective following a night on the couch. He did not realise just how much of his time would be spent sat in his van, waiting for unfaithful spouses to provide ammunition for the divorce courts. His best friend, Lambert Windle, failing at most things, except attracting women, is a college lecturer in English Literature and has somehow been decamped in the spare room for two years now. Two years of nocturnal shuffling and...

In an energy-liberated future, Lewis McCrorry probes the invisible event horizon of a mundane micro black hole power source, resulting in a series of unlikely disasters, seemingly aimed directly at him. When he and his long-time friend, synthetic sentient Nikola Tesla, find a disturbing token buried deep within the Neural Sea, his options swiftly collapse. Helpless against a mysteriously cunning foe, he is forced to escape into desperate anonymity, cut off from a familiar world of instant information, and convinced he must unravel the threads of an ever-tightening knot before his own life is...