A schoolgirl vanishes, the latest victim of the so-called 'Albion Snatcher'...A stricken spacecraft tries desperately to maintain contact with its command centre on Earth...A pioneering secret medical treatment, available only to the rich and powerful, compromised by blackmail...Set against the backdrop of a sinister London where the Government's New Directives include the return of the death penalty, The Very End Of Things charts the dysfunctional existence of several characters - the returning, bereaved son, the psychotic policeman, the faded pop starlet, the washed-up writer and the shadowy puppet masters of the mysterious Otto Club. The Very End Of Things intertwines stories of passion, greed, atonement and retribution.