Hidden From View

Eddon and Vail are back at the Centre. But they're not together. Eddon has returned to ordinary police-work, while Vail is up on High Sphere, explaining about the Anti-Human to the elite members of the upper class. Eddon's new place of work is in Urban Disposal Site Number One—or 'the Uds' for short. The Uds is the lowest sleaziest area in the entire Metropolitan Zone, subject to dangerous dumpings of garbage. Its inhabitants are eccentric drop-outs—people like Sioreth, Criven, Estelle, Trexie, Amphister, Marassa Dolor and the two Quespian sisters. The Udsers are notable for their strange obsessions and addictions. Eddon doesn't want to have anything more to do with Vail. He has a new romantic interest in his life: a woman with violet eyes and skin the colour of apricots. But Vail isn't so easily excluded.