The novel “The Final Programme” by Michael Moorcock was published for the first time in 1968 fixing-up short stories written in previous years. It’s the first novel in the Jerry Cornelius series.

Jerry Cornelius leads a team whose goal is to penetrate his family mansion, inhabited by his brother Frank, to get their hands on important information and save his sister Catherine. It’s a complex mission due to the sophisticated defense systems and doesn’t exactly end in a great success.

In Jerry Cornelius’ team there was also Miss Brunner, a computer expert who has her own very extreme project, in which she wants to involve Jerry as well. Taken from his fratricidal fight, Jerry tries to juggle relationships that become more complex and dangerous than ever with his brother Frank and Miss Brunner.