What if teleportation was really possible? Englishman Richie Fisher is about to find outRichie and his wife Clara have won a weekend in New York in a newspaper competition While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine It looks nothing like the open-plan teleporter on Captain Kirk's Starship Enterprise; in fact, it seems more like a glorified microwave oven Richie places his burger inside, hits the return key on the linked-up computer - and the burger disappears But if he can teleport a half-eaten veggie-burger, what else could you do with the machine? For criminals, the possibilities are endless Who could catch you if you beamed drugs into nostrils a hundred miles away? And how much would illegal immigrants pay to be teleported into the rich host country of their choice? Richie buys a teleporter and takes it back to England, where the chaos begins