An interview journalist's period of personal disarray is marked by the sight of a plume of smoke following an industrial accident at the edge of London, things then getting worse after an encounter with a reclusive cult novelist. For readers of Iain Sinclair and J.G. Ballard 'Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British hotels and pubs' David Baddiel Will Wiles both re-invents and murders the London novel, in a spectacular act of evil, surgical intensity' Warren Ellis 'It's outstanding' Mail on Sunday, Event Magazine