A great near future thriller set in a world ravaged by disease and blights of food crops. The book weaves the stories of four or five characters together around a coup and along the way there are explorations of trust, betrayal, the meaning of the soul and eco-collapses.returnreturnThe grime of the future, the global city and the interweaving characters is like Gibson, the sense of a viable post-apocalypse invokes Ballard. However the characters are drawn with much real humanity than either and consistently engage.