A confused young man three hundred miles from home, a perpetually annoyed celebrity chef slightly past her sell-by date, and an old school friend who may or may not be the Adjustable Spanner Murderer of the City of Truro, trapped in a flat in the rich end of west London.
With a bit of help from the hapless layabouts at an internet start-up company that isn't entirely as it seems, they accidentally get pulled into a world of corporate corruption, inept police, incompetent hit-men, and robot vacuum cleaners turning on their fleshy masters, until one of them ends up falling over a cliff and discovering how much it hurts.
In a comic tale of the doomed online executive tat merchants scaryduck dot com all lower case, can our hero - accidentally called Toby Young for the first two drafts - survive his appointment with gravity? (Answer: Yes) And will true love come through and win the day? (Answer: Almost certainly not).
This is Alistair Coleman's first novel.
