This carefully constructed novel unravels across one all-embracing, tumbling, breathtaking sentence to encapsulate the twin realities of a blind couple, waiting for the Saint to arrive, and an all-too-human university professor with too much time on his hands. A single sentence it may be, but Herring ultimately forces us to confront the perennial questions of searching and suffering and the price we must pay for an authentic life. Perfect for readers of what Paul Lynch, author of Prophet Song, named “state-of-our-soul” novels, and for those who enjoy horror stories but who are only too aware that the fear we seek is in the here and now. This earth-shattering work - the second instalment of The Catch Trilogy, the first, Guppy, was #1 free Kindle bestseller in “British and Irish Fiction” in the United States and the United Kingdom - will perplex you at first, and then draw you in, only to shock you to your core as you become a culpable player in the unfolding fusion of the absurd and the grotesque. “Disquieting …” Jason Brown, author of Mental States and Conceptual Worlds.