Everything changes for Fat Charlie Nancy, a boy from South London, who was so named by his father, on the day when his father falls dead during karaoke.

Charlie didn't know that his estranged father was the cheating god Anansi, a master of mischief and social disorder. He also never knew that he had a brother.

Now Brother Spider is standing on the threshold of his house, going to make life more interesting... and much more dangerous. This is a meeting that will take Fat Charlie from his London home to Florida, to the Caribbean Islands and to the very beginning of the world. Or the end of the world, depending on which way you look.