A set of linked short episodes dealing with an apocalypse, following the same protagonist at different points in his life (and in the various disintegrations and partial re-establishments which follow the initial, more or less unspecified, disaster), though it reads best as a whole and I'm sure that's how it is intended - pretty good. Also, interesting to see how Amsterdam solves some of the problems of writing in first person present tense (a voice that I increasingly fear is becoming somewhat trendy).