Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world-famous dollmaker, steps out of his life on day, abandons his family in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York. There's a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highhest of America's wealth and power, seeking to erase himself. But fury is all around him.