| Author/Contributor(s): | Beauman, Ned |
| Publisher: | Soho Press |
| Date: | 8/3/2027 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Britain’s most exclusive boys’ school, Taplow, harbors a shadowy, all-powerful, cloaked and hooded secret society steeped in occult observances and ritual murder—or that’s the story a tech billionaire with a grudge wants to manufacture and propagate, in hopes of bringing this six-hundred-year-old bastion of privilege crashing down.
The team he assembles includes his elegant and hyper-competent assistant, Alice, and two Taplow alums: the disgraced former journalist who narrates the story; and Spiller, a remorseless but relentlessly upbeat operator-slash-scammer who shares a name—and something more—with the hero of a Taplow-set, mostly forgotten series of boys’ adventure books.
They set out to manufacture a conspiracy from scratch. What follows is a scheme so elaborate and implausible that, given an unlimited budget, a cast of hired conspirators, filming locations in a former Soviet state and buckets of bleeding-edge AI, it might just become the next Pizzagate or Wayfair. With the conspiratorial decadence of Eyes Wide Shut and the ludicrously elaborate reality-building of Wag the Dog, plus nods to mid-century juvenile adventure novels and just a hint of cosmic horror, Spiller Saves the Day is a gleefully ingenious novel about privilege, power and the stories we tell about both—and what happens when fiction overwrites the truth.