While the rest of the country is joining the new Happiness cult, Edwin (the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor at New York publisher Panderic Press) is in trouble. A cartel of drug, alcohol, tobacco and drug-rehab bosses have a contract out on him.
It's all the fault of the mysterious Tupac Soiree, and his book 'What I Learned on the Mountain'. But who is Tupac? And what does all this have to do with an epic drunken encounter with Oliver Reed?
When one of those irritating self-help books actually gets it right, the unnatural and worrying times are just around the corner...