Dressed as a gypsy woman, Dirk Gently is using his irritatingly accurate clairvoyant powers to read palms. He is saved when a frantic client turns up with a ludicrous story about being stalked by a goblin waving a contract accompanied by ahairy, green-eyed, scythe-wielding monster. He plunges into a mystery where the interconnectedness of all things is tested to the limit