Trouble is brewing across the Multiverse, and Justin Wilson, a young inter-reality smuggler, is in the thick of it. Alternate versions of the Earth are being raided, plundered, and even accidentally destroyed by Shuttlers, beings like Justin who can easily slip between realities.The story begins when Pol Atkinson arrests Justin for smuggling forbidden books from his world into another. Pol is a patrolman of the Sidewise Directorate, the organisation set up to prevent further damage to all these defenceless worlds. Justin eventually decides to work together with Pol to avert a conspiracy from gaining control of all of Earth’s alternate realities everywhere.Forget about reaching for the star...