John Mulligan

As America turns black, the Klansmen in one small Tennessee town abandon their Klavern and unite behind their new preacher, a barefoot moonshine peddler called Randy Corless, who is beginning to love his life as a black man.

But spare a thought for Micky Small, a wannabee aircraft accident investigator who has the dubious honour of being the world’s first recipient of the vaccine, and who worries about how it will affect his girlfriend, the exotic Russian spy Vanda Jakovf.

Donald Daniels has big concerns too, about the effect on property prices if everybody is going to be living in a black neighbourhood.

As America faces the prospect of a nation of black citizens, The President’s Chief of Staff and his Attorney General girlfriend see the chance to eliminate racial inequality for all time, but they haven’t really thought it through.

The White House wonders why the Russian President has stopped making public appearances, as they try to monitor the movements of Russian diplomats who criss-cross the globe. Soon Boyle is overrun with Russian and American spies, but the locals aren’t fooled.