Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has
nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably
awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love
affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has
secured the involvement of none other than celebrated novelist Michel
Houellebecq. The exhibition brings Jed new levels of global fame. But, his
boiler is still broken, his ailing father flirts with oblivion and, worst
of all, he is contacted by an inspector requiring his help in solving an
unspeakable, atrocious and gruesome crime, involving none other than
celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq... Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award 2013.