A spy, a dentist, and a disappearer walk into a shadow war…The Union is dead and buried.

New Albion’s Intelligence Chief, is losing her tenuous grip on the benign dictatorship formerly known as England.What remains of the Realm is reeling from the insidious attacks of datagarch Winslow Gang’s Sino-Camp.

In response The Iron Dame turns to the entrapment and coercion programme, FLYPAPER.

The unrefusable offer of eleven months of joy in return for one of service and sorrow is accepted by hapless dentist, O.Payback time has arrived and O must become the Oktoberist.But FLYPAPER’s creator, ex-techcon, Billy Hunt - - dragged out of prison and into The Iron Dame’s orbit by his uncle and Chief Disappearer, Carsun ‘Carcass’ Stark - - dreams of escaping their clutches once and for all, but has he got what it takes, if not where will he get it?The Sino-Camp’s AIgent, TZU detects a sensitive counter-hack, forcing Gang to recall sleeper, Nelius Quaid to Night Town to investigate, but Quaid is burdened by mysteries of his own…The Iron Dame gives Stark his orders, Billy still wants out, Nelius Quaid hits Night Town as the Oktoberist is activated.It’s almost Hallowe’en, the last leaves are falling, who will prevail as the End-Game begins?‘Born of imagined shared pints with JG Ballard, Anthony Burgess and James Joyce, Onyx gives us a surveilled Shoreditch as Night Town, puts an ‘X’ in Dublin and grants a glimpse into a dystopian future that may already have its feet under our cyber table.’