The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-longlisted Granta Best of Young British novelist Ned
Beauman - a speculative literary thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion that is as
laugh-out-loud funny as it is serious in its message. The near future. With tens of thousands
of species dying out every year our last hope is the biobanks impregnable vaults where their
remnants can be preserved forever. Until one day an audacious cyberattack obliterates every
single one. In the aftermath a troubled conservationist and a crooked mining exec must team up
in search of the venomous lumpsucker a lost fish that they both desperately need to save.
Together they pursue it through the weird landscapes of the 2030s - a nature reserve full of
toxic waste a floating city on the Baltic Sea the dangerous hinterlands of a totalitarian
state. And the further they go the deeper they're drawn into the mystery of the attack on the
biobanks. Who was behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing?
