The national bestselling author takes a departure from his epic science fiction to craft this cross between Len Deighton-style espionage and H.P. Lovecraftian horror.

Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic.

Why the hell did I ever sag ‘yes' to Andy?About that application for active service you filed last year, As it happens, we've got a little job or tonight and we're short-staffed; could you lend a hand?

You bastard, Andy.

Bob Howara is a low-evel techie worKing for supersecret government agency While his colleagues are out saving tne world, he's under a desK restoring lost data,Bob's world is dull but safe, and that's the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got noticed.

Now Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft,alternative universes dimension-hopping Nazis. Middle Eastern terrorists Lovecraftian horror and the end of ne world Only one thing is certain; tt will take more than Control- Air-Delete to sort this'mess out.