Jack Archer is a detective living 50 years in the far future of London in 2015. Down on his luck, private detective Jack Archer is given a case by Space Satellite Magnate Sir Nicholas Exloqii to find his missing daughter Amelia. Is it a simple case of a missing rouge heiress or are deeper forces as work? Archer investigates. Written in the early 1960's this is a highly complelling and surprisingly accurate speculative fiction about the life in the year 2015. Pocket computers which also double as wireless phones, personal telegraph messages, electric cars, televisions less than an inch thick, vidieo telephones, a world covered in a gigantic computer network, electronic books, a single currency used across Europe, secret electric wars, devices that can make espresso in your own home some of the fabulous predictions all made in this classic golden age of science ficition book. [ ON HOLD] This is a slipstream fiction novel. Warning levels of irony through out ;-)