Life is often life’s worst enemy.
Something happened in tiny Van Horn, Texas, a company town for an aerospace conglomerate ''' something terrible yet oddly mundane. Men and women wander away, and the town suddenly sits empty.
A crime wave sweeps across America, marked by a graffito: Felice the Rat, a grinning punk rodent. A new drug, Delicto, rages through every class, and addicts will kill or die for it. Then people start falling ill and dying, first in ones and twos and then entire towns.
Against this backdrop, bereaved father Bhakti Singh and lady cop Rachel Gibson team up to chase one kidnapped girl, Janet Chen, across the chaotic and ravaged country, finding allies along the way. They are opposed by Mr. P., a mythic and immortal spirit in human skin who seeks Janet and other special children for his own evil purpose. Meanwhile, redemption and healing await just out of reach for a world that has lost all faith.
Past and future, magic and science all come together in this prophetic novel that questions the very nature and meaning of life on this earth, this galaxy, and the universe.
Genre: Science Fiction
Something happened in tiny Van Horn, Texas, a company town for an aerospace conglomerate ''' something terrible yet oddly mundane. Men and women wander away, and the town suddenly sits empty.
A crime wave sweeps across America, marked by a graffito: Felice the Rat, a grinning punk rodent. A new drug, Delicto, rages through every class, and addicts will kill or die for it. Then people start falling ill and dying, first in ones and twos and then entire towns.
Against this backdrop, bereaved father Bhakti Singh and lady cop Rachel Gibson team up to chase one kidnapped girl, Janet Chen, across the chaotic and ravaged country, finding allies along the way. They are opposed by Mr. P., a mythic and immortal spirit in human skin who seeks Janet and other special children for his own evil purpose. Meanwhile, redemption and healing await just out of reach for a world that has lost all faith.
Past and future, magic and science all come together in this prophetic novel that questions the very nature and meaning of life on this earth, this galaxy, and the universe.
Genre: Science Fiction
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