What is the devastating effect on your life when, through no fault of your own, you lose everything – home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, money, credit cards, mobile phone – and you can never get them back? This is what happens to Adam Kindred when a freakish series of accidents and a splitsecond decision turns his life upside down for ever. The police are searching for him. A hired killer is stalking him. Adam has nowhere to go but down – underground. He decides to join that vast army of the disappeared and the missing that throng the lowest level of London's population as he tries to figure out what to do with his life and struggles to understand the forces that have made it unravel so spectacularly.