In the devastated world of the 21st century, fate brings together a disparate group of people: a fascist dreaming of a putsch, a composer who plays the piano with the power of his thoughts, a First Lady standing in the shadow of a simulacrum president, and the world's last practicing psychotherapist. And they all have to reassure citizens who are starting to ask too many questions. Philip K. Dick, in his classic style, combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, Nazis, androids, Neanderthals, aliens and mutants to create a thrilling, mind-bending story with conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems.