Written in what another writer calls Quine's "magical brutalism" style, it's a grotesque sort of pilgrim's progress, ending in murder and filled with bizarre characters who are transparent, vicious representations of real people: Quine's agent, his editor, his publisher, his mistress and Leonora. Before he disappeared, he started circulating the manuscript of a new novel, Bombyx Mori (Latin for "silkworm"). Strike soon discovers that a great many people would like to find Quine. Owen Quine is an author he made a splash years ago with one novel but since has become better known for his eccentricity than his literary talent. He takes on a missing-person case when Leonora Quine, a mousy, odd middle-aged woman, asks him to find her husband. Strike, a veteran who lost a leg in Afghanistan, is getting a lot more business since the high-profile case he solved in the first book.
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