Reminiscent of the edgy, offbeat humor of Chris Moore and
Matt Ruff, the first entry in a whimsical, fast-paced
supernatural series from the New York Times
bestselling author of the Sandman Slim novels—a dark and
humorous story involving a doomsday gizmo, a horde of
baddies determined to possess its power, and a clever thief
who must steal it back . . . again and
again.
22000 B.C. A beautiful, ambitious
angel stands on a mountaintop, surveying the world and its
little inhabitants below. He smiles because soon, the last
of humanity who survived the great flood will meet its end,
too. And he should know. He’s going to play a big part in
it. Our angel usually doesn’t get to do field work, and if
he does well, he’s certain he’ll get a big
promotion.
And now it’s time . . . .
The angel
reaches into his pocket for the instrument of humanity’s
doom. Must be in the other pocket. Then he frantically
begins to pat himself down. Dejected, he realizes he has
lost the object. Looking over the Earth at all that could
have been, the majestic angel utters a single
word.
“Crap.”
2015. A thief named Coop—a
specialist in purloining magic objects—steals and delivers a
small box to the mysterious client who engaged his services.
Coop doesn’t know that his latest job could be the end of
him—and the rest of the world. Suddenly he finds himself in
the company of The Department of Peculiar Science, a
fearsome enforcement agency that polices the odd and
strange. The box isn’t just a supernatural heirloom with
quaint powers, they tell him.
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