Sometimes a single choice is all it takes: a meeting with the boss in the middle of the desert, drugs thrown from a window, an offer of compromising material that could swing an election. Once it’s made, there’s no going back.

It opens with Billie, who takes a job at a private poker club to find the man she wants revenge on, and keeps that pressure: radicals who put a security agent on trial in near-future New York, a psychic called to a homicide scene, a student with an unusually deadly part-time job. It ends with Fugue, where a woman who once ran from a gangster has one night to help a stranger disappear.