Thoughtful, unlikely, imaginative and very, very funny, How Beats the Original Heart is an existential neo-noir - a thriller in a half-broken world with a deeply spiritual heart. Why did Kick Vivid, singer in The Fifth Season, agree to find the boy?Even he doesn’t seem to know why. But Universal Services do, and the almost omnipotent corporation is pursuing him relentlessly.With nothing as it seems, can Kick even save himself, let alone the boy?Book one of the non-sequential 'Moments of Tiny Violence' trilogy.