Heir to a thriving internet company. Henry should be set for life. But when his website turns out to be a porn site, he logs into a crazed fantasy world. Somewhere in east Belfast, disgraced lecturer Francis Cleary is imprisoned inside a steel box, contemplating the riddle of his impending death. Just out of jail, thuggish but enigmatic Shuff Sheridan hooks up with his old gang, unleashing his own brand of morality- and indiscriminate bloodshed - on a London pub. And in a crumbling East European tower-block. Alina sells her body online for $1.99. When Alina disappears. Henry and Shuff embark upon a dark odyssey from post-ceasefire Belfast to post-Communist Romania. A thrilling, disturbing, and blackly comic offering from the Irish Irvine Welsh.