In the novel from the author of Assembly, a journalist's exposé of a brutal attack on a Yorkshire farm raises more questions than it answers. Words are weapons, tools, currency. On a Yorkshire farm, a man is bludgeoned with a solid gold bar. A journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement. She solves the mystery, but her viral longread exposé raises more questions than it answers. Universality focuses on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.