Nine days is a long time in Coolsville. More than enough time for Dr. Kiely Flanagan to shop business mogul J.P. Gillespie to a scandal-hungry media, collect the bounty and split for the sun. Time enough, Marshall McLemon hopes, to secure the backing he needs for his online museum exhibit, getting him - work wise at any rate - out of boresville and into something real.

Papa Charlie McCormack is racing against the clock to discover if Sister Jasmine Ylang-Ylang is the type of nun that goes in for celibacy or not, and the directors of the WentWest ... Read moreInc, are anxious to see an end to the year-long plague visited upon them by the cyber-terror organisation known as Mantra.

Whether any of them succeed is something else, as one thing depends on the other in this finely balanced, gripping and often hilarious satire.