Europe is crumbling. The Xian Flu pandemic and ongoing economic crises possess fractured europe, the borderless Continent from the Schengen Contract is a distant memory, and fresh countries are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight. For an cleverness official like Jim, it’s a headache. Every week or so an agreeable power spawns, a fresh and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England’s interests; it’s hard to keep on top of it all. But items are about to get worse for Jim. A stabbing on the London bus pitches him into a globe where his intelligence service is preparing for war with another world, and a guy has arrive who may contain the key to unlocking the secret.