After hundreds of years of secrecy, the Community, an adjacent alternative world, and Europe, fractured into a dizzying network of tiny states and principalities, open their borders to each other. A new era of peace and prosperity beckons, but that doesn't stop somone committing an awful terrorist atrocity, but nobody knows who did it or why. An increasingly exasperated Rudi, who just wants to cook, sets out to make sense of it all with his gaggle of strays, waifs, exiles and fugitives. There are more shadowy players maneuvering and intriguing aganst each other than you can shake a stick at, and the ability to cross invisible borders to hidden dimensions adds whole layers of difficulty to finding out who they are and what they want. Hutchinson's prose and oblique storytellng and lovable characters make an insanely complex plot a thoroughgoing pleasure to unravel.

(Not gonna lie, second chapter had me going for a bit.)