In this final volume of 'The Adventures of the Flubb' our little word-taster finds himself out of a job. The pocket dictionary project has collapsed with his boss running off to join the Theosophists in the Himalayas. Mindful now of the chaos his often misguided attempts to help people in the past has left behind him, he sets out to make amends for some of the damage he has caused. He retraces his steps - the same approximate steps he followed through 'The Evolution of the Flubb', but now in reverse. Alas, these well-meaning attempts only produce more chaos in their wake - and do not bring him any closer to another job. His efforts to find his way again leads him back from London to Oxford and once more around the globe, first on a research vessel to the Arctic, then on a cruise to the Caribbean, then on a nuclear submarine to California and across the Pacific to China as (unknown to himself) a double agent. He graduates to triple agent as he travels on with the Trans-Siberian towards Europe once more - with one notable detour into space on the way... All this and more brings him finally back to the small town where he first emerged from the mist, and it is back into the mist that he will disappear, leaking words all the time. But perhaps his seemingly random footsteps have been leading him after all towards some invisible goal...