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?
