After his wife is killed in a terrorist attack that employed a new type of weapon Tibor Tarent is returned to a Muslim dominated England beset by climate catastrophe to find that a large portion of London was destroyed using a similar weapon. During World War 1 a magician travels to the front lines to try to devise a means of disguising aircraft from enemy guns. In world war 2 a flight mechanic encounters a female Polish pilot who finds him oddly familiar.

There are a lot of different narratives, jumping about in time and place, alternative realities and world and timelines. The split narratives eem to be the result of the same technology that created the weapon, though this is not explicitly stated or even explained. It's very puzzling but also absorbing, and while no solution is presented, it all seems to be gathering towards a particular outcome. It's lucky I didn't go into this expecting everything to be explained or resolved, as it was I enjoyed it perfectly well.