A.J. is an agent, though no one knows who he works for. He covers his profession by posing as an international playboy. Many stories about A.J.'s exploits circulate, but usually with several competing versions. A.J. funds a schools for delinquent young boys and unveils a statue on campus of a pair of young boys about to sodomize each other. Salvador Hassan O'Leary runs a complicated drug empire. Clem and Jody are Russian agents who pretend to be American tourists.
There are several groups. The Liquefactionists and the Senders fight against each other. The Senders want to connect all people through a brain control operation. The Divisionists are in between the other two groups. They want to cut off parts of their bodies to grow new people, called Replicas. The Factualists.....
