Can you imagine it...? The Minister's dead... The Police are doing strange things.... There's a secret coven meeting in the boiler room and Daniel's brother's band is about to be famous! Can our 12-year-old hero take it all in his stride? Together with his best mate, Kavanagh, Daniel must solve a mystery. In fact, it's the first trouble he's ever had in his life, and he's kind of in at the deep end. Turns out, the Minister had a double life and this opens the door to a world of possibility that most grown-ups, let alone schoolboys, would find hard to comprehend. Along the way, there are fights, frights, let-downs and child abduction. Who could have guessed there was so much going on in civilised Oxford? The real question is: will the future ever be the same again?