In the country of Runway Four, in the north of Bludgeon City , just over the Regal Canal , the Lie District is found. If you drill down into it via Google Maps, your eyes fall on a vast warren of bleak houses, the layout broken in key parts by a grim prison, a mental institution, and a large Gothic cathedral, rebadged as Secular Hall. Nestled deep in this maze of misery is Rodent Street where lives a man of little renown and even less significance. He dwells in a pokey little room—his very own rathole—in a house of spartan flats. He is tall, fair-haired and twenty-five years old. His name is Grudge Galmount. *** Grudge was alone in the rathole with only his thoughts for company. His Spanish girlfriend, one Beatrice Marcos, was back in Madrid. The pair had enjo...