The Investigator is despatched to a provincial town to investigate a disturbing spate of suicides among the employees of The Firm. But what should be a routine investigation descends into a nightmarish journey into the unknown.
'The novel is frequently very funny, but it also skillfully evokes the insidious, modern fear that we, like the Investigator, are playing bit parts in some vast, incomprehensible system' Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal.