A world split into fragments. Railways piercing even Eternity. A city trapped in the endless autumn. Rain, slush, mud. And bright shop windows, neon casino signs, and lines of expensive cars. The City of Autumn never sleeps, and no one knows what will happen in it on yet another restless night. Will entities break into the subway? Will an underground alchemical laboratory explode? Will the bombers carry out another action? Or will gangsters simply rob a bank?
A special police commissioner, Viktor Gray, investigates the murder of the councilman’s niece—and the more he learns, the more clearly he understands that someone is running a big game. But who is this mysterious puppeteer, and what is his true goal? Power alone, or a desire to look behind the curtain of the world’s very structure? The commissioner doesn’t know. Just as he doesn’t know whether he will have enough self-control to finish the investigation without anger and obsession…