Zenith gets a hard time for being selfish and shallow and not particularly heroic, but consider here all the people who set out to save the world, or change it, or seek to advance it, turn out to be monsters, and Zenith's rationale for NOT taking over the world and running things as a super-fascist makes complete sense. Even St John, radical-turned-conservative, who truly seems to care and wants to save London from the missiles, if nothing else, has a nasty little sting at the end showing what he's prepared to do. Otherwise, this deals with Zenith's past while providing intimations of the war to come. I'm, pretty sure it was called 'The Hollow Kingdom' or something like that when originally collected, so it's annoying that that's not used here, and there's at least one superfluous exclamation mark added, so those otherwise gorgeous collections have their annoying bits.