ISBN 0-575-06067-0 (UK pbk)

"The streets of London: Japanese tourists in smog-masks and WorkForce youths in tagged orange overalls, symbols of a sleazy state one step from apocalypse. The world is crying out to be remade and BREAKTHRU, a fascist religious sect, have the answer: Kairos, a sacramental designer drug that changes reality -- all realities.

"Kairos is fear, chaos, opportunity -- but the cultists have lost the Kairos and those who have it are ready to unleash a phantasmagoric unravelling of time, of space, of being..." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1995]

"Set early in the next century, in a chilly Britain where the Tories are back in power after an ineffectual term of Labour government, Kairos has some unnervingly intelligent things to say about political activism, the heart's desire and relations between the two." --Colin Greenland (in City Limits ).

"Gwyneth Jones is astonishingly good. She writes with the complexity of Gene Wolfe and the compassion of Ursula Le Guin." -- (in the British Book News ).

"Even more savagely than Ian McEwan in The Child in Time , Jones views the England of a decade hence as polluted factory farm run by the police for the benefit of a panicking élite. Only in the grubbier interstices of such a world can liberal or counter-cultural lives be led." --John Clute (in the Times Literary Supplement ).