Welcome to Michstein. That's either a greeting or an insult upon your person. But the desja do have a confusing language, alongside everything else in this Dominion created and inhabited by robots. Doc Rec is only allowed there because he's a cyborg, and even he doesn't know if he can fit in as he hopes. Luckily, he doesn't need to for long, because he only needs to find their mysterious leader. The only pure human in a Dominion full of perfect order.

Meanwhile, July heads off to a place where "order" is a dirty word. Just as dirty as everything else is in Fawkland. A place of pure and utter chaos, infested with gangs, with unsavoury types, and those not welcome anywhere else. There is only one rule in this place, the rule of Bore. A man who may seem terribly thuggish on first appearance, and disgusting on the second, but he somehow hides a secret that is blackmailing the great powers of the world.

Pulled in two ways, the Red Hand and its Overlord must rely on the on the Left and Right Hands of Doom. But nothing is as easy as they hope, especially when the Global Police, the Bank of Alicanto, and the mysterious Qwerty Corporation are each coming to tear it all apart.