By Adam Roberts

Alma is a personal detective in a near-future England, a rustic desperately attempting to tempt humans clear of the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the web. yet most folk are chuffed to spend their lives plugged in, and the rustic is decaying.

Alma's companion is ailing, and should be handled with no fail each four hours, a job that in simple terms Alma can do. If she misses the five minute window her lover will die. She is likely one of the few to not entry the Shine.

So whilst Alma is termed to an automatic motor vehicle manufacturing unit to be proven an very unlikely dying and reveals herself stuck up in a political coup, she is familiar with that obtaining too deep might go away her not able to get domestic.

What follows is a fast paced Hitchcockian mystery as Alma evades arrest, digs into the conspiracy, and attempts to determine how the heck a lifeless physique seemed within the boot of a freshly-made motor vehicle in a fully-automated factory.

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