Tense, involving, Camden's Knife is a smart near-future thriller with a startlingly real sense of plausibility. In a world that's falling apart, can one ordinary person make a difference? Tremendous stuff! Kavanagh can write!" - Hugo Award-winner David Wingrove, author of the Chung Kuo series and the Roads To Moscow trilogy In the second novel in The Macroglint Trilogy set in the near future, Jip Spotswood, our intrepid pop culture reporter, is covering the biggest story of his life. The world has become riveted by a $100 Million Tournament of the game STANDOFF! which is to be held in Prism Resort in Las Vegas, at the same time as the greatest Battle of the Bands contest featuring Pandora's Obsession vs. Christie Cramer, Billy Blair and the Alliance (CCBBA) in "the biggest rock concert in the history of the Universe." And Spotswood has a stake in the outcome of both events that could not only change his own life, but the future of America.