In the third novel, Colonel Pyat dreams and plans his way from New York to Hollywood, from Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the lowest reaches of sexual degradation, living through the mistakes and disappointments of life, passing through the worst nightmares of the century. In this novel, Moorcock made the life of Piat into an epic and comic adventure. The continuity of his dreams and depraved fantasies, his desire to hide from reality - all this only leads to the fact that he runs from crisis to crisis, and his every evasion becomes only a link in the chain of deception and betrayal. But through self-deception, through his distorted visions, this completely unreliable narrator becomes the lens through which the wildest farce and chilling horrors turn into the hard truth of life.