Soho, 4 a.m.6 July 2005. Great Britain has just been announced as the next host of the Olympics. The euphoric crowds pour forth from Trafalgar Square into the waiting bars and restaurants of Soho. Dreams, drugs, debauchery . . . Soho is London's red light district, where any desire can be satisfied in the blink of an eye. But behind it all there is a permanent community of residents whose own sins are concealed by the partying and excess. Zoe, an aspiring model

Before long another corpse is discovered dead of fright

the Moth was the one in which people had the greatest adventures

Chapter 11: Public speaking

but picks the wrong night for an easy escape

Mike Gordon

From sheepfolds harried by wolves

raw human emotion and conflict is tempered with the boundless compassion of the Buddha

and places

The Node has failed

the answers in the back will send you on fresh journeys of literary discovery

But just as things look to be getting rosy a series of murders occur and the supply of antiques dries up

well leavened with bone-dry humour