Detective Avinash Singh is dying by degrees. Outcast from his people, on the lam, and stricken by a deadly plague, Detective Singh survives on the fringes by his keen wits, quick draw, and cool silver tongue.
Mortise Locke, the Machine City, last bastion of mankind in all its fallen glory, where the sum total of life is cheaper than in part. A poor kid wrung from the city's dregs has been abducted. His family's lost all hope. Enter Detective Singh, gumshoe legend...