Harry is an English youth in school, and strange things occur as he grows up, such as a sudden increased intellect in mathematics, and the ability to fight beyond his experience after a teacher is killed.

Eventually he marries his childhood sweetheart, Brenda, who slowly realizes there is more to her now-successful writer husband: that he can speak to the dead, whose collective consciousnesses remain behind, at the location of dying.

Boris gains the ability to become a necromancer, who can forcefully extract secrets from the dead by playing with their remains and even eating them.

Eventually, Harry is contacted by E-Branch, who deal with "ESPionage" using psychic investigators and spies, while Boris is hired by the U.S.S.R. equivalent, the Opposition.

Unfortunately, Harry himself dies in the conflict from gunshot wounds, but his mind also lives on like his dead friends'; his body survives long enough to draw Dragosani back into the Mobius Continuum and trap him in a recurring time loop for all eternity.