"Researching the enigmatic Carnaby Street clothes designer John Stephen, Paul experiences what he thinks is a time-slip; he encounters the proto-Mod known as 'the Face' and comes to suspect he is being stalked. Could he and the Face have met before? Can the Face really be alive and unchanged today? Haunted by these questions, Paul is torn between an immortal past and a dying present ..."--Page 4 of cover.