CONTENTS

Also by Christopher Brookmyre

I: The Great Grease-Tailed Shaven Pig Hunt

Death notices

Glitterball shards (i)

Cover story

Glitterball shards (ii)

Portrait of a lost self

Bar act (i)

Audition

II: This Insubstantial Pageant Faded

This rough magic

Not safe for work

The good ship black & decker

First contact

Bar act (ii)

The tyranny of normal

The transformed man

The oldest motive

Parental advisory: explicit purpose

Push the ghosts

Should maybe have worn her jeans

Thieves like us

III: The Perfume of Heroic Deeds

Living will

Prey

Rescue

The invisible pass

None of his trinkets wanting

Constabulary et acetabularii

Chase this light

The one that got away

The inescapable

Liberation

Spirit of Athene, one month later