When Howard Barton visits the remote north coast for a vacation, he has no idea what he is getting into. He is robbed by "gluers" - an anarchist group - and locked in an attic. Even when he escapes things don't improve because the entire local community seems to consist of oddballs and lunatics.

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Howard Barton comes to the remote northern coast of California in search of a folded scrap of paper rumoured to bear a sketch by the legendary Japanese artist Hokusai. Unfortunately, there are plenty of others in search of the Paper Grail …

Mrs Lamey, who waters her garden with blood, among other strange and noxious substances; the enigmatic Mr Jimmers whose garden shed conceals a bizarre invention designed to raise the dead; Uncle Roy, founder of The Museum of Modern Mysteries and builder of haunted houses.

In Mendocino, nothing is what it first appears … but everything is connected, and Howard will have to work out whose side he’s on, as he is led into o a vicious battle between mysterious underground societies …

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