1999 - automation, total welfare, and weekends on the moon...or an overcrowded world that knows that the dawn of the new century is the edge of disaster - a world of starving billions living on lentils, soya beans and - if they're lucky - the odd starving rat.In a city of thirty-five million Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten...for even in a world such as this a policeman can find himself utterly alone...