Alan Tracker receives a letter from a childhood friend who has become a prominent scientist asking for help. Everything would be fine, but he has been lying in the grave for a year! Is this message linked to mysterious celebrity deaths and disappearances around the world? Alan plunges headlong into the investigation and finds himself in an amazing city not listed on any map. To a city where the Dead Sun is born every night, and its inhabitants are no longer quite people. This is not heaven or hell, not even another planet, but a world created by man.