Pollen

Coyote was the best black-cab driver of all time, picking up passengers where others were afraid to drive. Now he's the first fatality of the Pollination, the first to fall victim to the massive cloud of pollen that has descended upon a remixed and futuristic Manchester. Amid vicious blooms and a soaring pollen count, people are sneezing themselves to death. Only a very few are immune to the fever, and two of them - shadow-cop Sibyl Jones and her wayward daughter Boda - must travel separate paths back into the darkness to find the seed that has spread the nightmare. What they find there will forever alter the ancient relationship between mankind and the myths it creates to make sense of the world. In his award-winning first novel, Vurt , Jeff Noon explored the urban future with a dimension-bending feather called Vurt, a new world where dreams and drugs seep into reality. Now there is much more at stake: one mysterious murder, new pollen deaths daily, and a city in desperate need of saving. In 21st Century England, a taxi driver is found dead, flowers sprouting from his throat. The case is given to policewoman Sybil Jones who has the ability to read a victim's dying thoughts, in this case a girl's kiss. She has to hurry to solve the crime as from the flowers is spreading the worst epidemic of hay fever in all time, people sneezing to death. By the author of Vurt