Peter Smith is the final link between The Great Collective and The Space. With him, the curse must end... The Great Collective were the first to make contact with The Space. Granted immortality, they lived and lived, ceaseless witnesses to humanity's ills. Resentment manifested itself as the evil Reaping Icon. The fate of the world rests on stopping his poison. Inspector Noose – finished, alone. Framed for a heinous double murder, the so-so crime solver and love rat hits rock bottom as his past misdeeds catch up with him and seed his tragic downfall. He will never come back from this, but one last deed must be done to put things right. Alex ­– weak, feeble. Blamed for the assassination of the Prime Minister and frustrated by a wife who hates him, the young man lets himself become consumed by the malevolent Reaping Icon. He opens Alex up to The Space – the summation of everything that ever was, is or will be – and gives him ultimate control over...

It's 1596 and The Great Collective – a secret society of self-styled geniuses – are granted untold powers by a mysterious entity called The Space. With this comes immortality, but at an untold cost... Peter Smith can only live to thirty-six, constantly dying and re-living his short life throughout history as his memories dilute. Wishing to do good with his new skills, he tries to solve the gruesome murder of Thaddeus Hobble's wife. But he comes up against stiff opposition from his fellow men and soon finds himself questioning his own morals and motives. As the collective witness – and soon perpetrate – the worst horrors imaginable, what deadliness will their pain and hate brew into? Peter dreams of a distant future where he will grow old and die with the woman he loves, but first he must try to remember from one life to the next, no matter how painful it is. In 1738 The Space shows him the actions of the 20th century's most evil man – as his lives trundle on, can Peter recall what...