The plot thickens, but fiction's not well at all. Tommy Taylor's on a world tour bringing his message and his story to sold-out audiences. With an appearance scheduled in Brisbane, a police detective investigates a series of disappearances associated with a fringe Tommy Taylor cult. Meanwhile the destructive Wave washes over the lands of story, and the story-eating Leviathan's wound gets worse and worse. Pullman and the Cabal may be dead and gone, but the apocalypse rolls on.