michael moorcock returns with the story of the times and trials of dennis dover former rock guitarist photojournalist paparazzo and loyal denizen of mother london and his brilliant beautiful and socially conscious cousin rosie beck since childhood they have been inseparable delighting in the daily discoveries of a life with no limits but now a powerful unstoppable force that consumes the past indiscriminately leaving nothing of substance in its wake threatens the metropolis that nurtured themthe terminator is named john barbican begg a hangeron from denny and rosies youth he has become the morally corrupt center of their london and the richest most rapacious creature in the western hemisphere with but one goal to devour the entire world and their only choices left are to join in drop out or plot to destroy him