Your face tomorrow. 1: Fever and spear

Recently separated from his wife, Jacques Deza moves from Madrid to London. At a party in Oxford held by an old friend, he is approached by the enigmatic Bertram Tupra. Tupra believes that Jacques has a talent: he is one of those people who sees more clearly than others, who can guess from someone´s face today what they will become tomorrow. He invites him to work for a mysterious group whose aims are unstated but whose day-to-day activities involve the careful observation of people´s character and the prediction of their future behaviour.