daniel is a highly successful stand-up comedian who has built his reputation on outrageously playing to the prejudices of his public. celebrated as an acerbic commentattor on human life ? although actually far more interested in his own sex life then in that of humanity ? he has, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and at the end of the world as we know it, begun to detest laughter in particular, and mankind in general.despite all this, daniel is unable to stop himself believing in the possibility of love.a thousan years on, war, drought and earthqueakes have decimated the erarth and daniel 24 lives alone in a secure compound: the 24th descendant to be clonedfrom daniel?s dna. his only companion is daniel?s dog, fox ?also a clone of the original- and they pass their days in neutral tranquility, whilst the remnants of the human race roam outside in packs.as daniel?s story unfolds, an account that is as much the tale of the implosion of the modern world as a personal history, daniel 24 and then daniel 25, like their predecessors, must add their own commentaries to it, endeavouring to fathom what daniel could have meant by ?love?, ?sex? , ?regret? and ?laughter?the daniel of today, and his descendant of tomorrow, each in their own way resists the limitations of their existence. in the course of their separate attempts to escape, they will both discover the price of immortality.