Harry Lyon is a cop who embraces tradition and order. The biggest bane of his life is his partner Connie Gulliver. Harry doesnt like the messiness of her desk her lack of social polish or her sometimes casual attitude towards the law. Look Harry its the Age of Chaos she tells him. Get with the times. And when Harry and Connie have to take out a hopped-up gunman in a restaurant the chase and shootout swiftly degenerate into a surreal nightmare that seems to justify Connies view of the modern world. Shortly after Harry encounters a filthy rag-clad denizen of the streets who says ominously Ticktock ticktock. Youll be dead in sixteen hours. Struggling to regain the orderly life he cherishes Harry is trapped in an undertow of terror and violence. For reasons he does not understand someone is after him Connie Gulliver and the people he loves.
