THE PHYSICIAN and Charley decide to have a well-deserved break from the monotony of being chased, shot at and generally suffering anti-social behaviour at the hands of others. And they also result in Venice, well into Charley’s upcoming, as the fantastic city prepares to sink beneath the water for the last time… Which will be a momentous, if rather dispiriting, event to see in itself. However, the machinations of the love-sick aristocrat, a proud art historian and a rabid High Priest of an extremely quite dodgy cult combine to make Venice’s swansong a night time to remember. And then there’s the rebellion by the web-footed amphibious underclass, the secret of the disappearing corpse and the truth behind a curse going back further than curses usually perform. THE PHYSICIAN and Charley are compelled to wonder just what they have themselves associated with this time…