READ THE THRILLING, ACERBIC AND HILARIOUS NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE The Avengers meets The Breakfast Club wry and engaging James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NomadA spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes Charles Stross, bestselling author of The Atrocity ArchivesBlending the lurid, anythinggoes madness of Silver Age comic books with emotionally complicated characters and realistic consequences on a cosmic scaleSFXDr Rick Tower is a mildmannered English professor easing into middleage at a mediumsized New England college. A genial blur, he thinks. Even his vices are unremarkable.But it wasnt always like this. Not until they changed his name, altered his looks and told him pretend you were never different.Because, decades earlier after a very bad day at high school, he was committed to a secret government facility with three other kids, Cat, Jack and Stephanie, each special in their own way. Tested, tutored and trained, this extraordinary quartet were then told to save the world.It was the best thing that ever happened to them. Until it became the worst.Now, twenty years after the tragedy that forced him into academic nonentity, a mysterious disappearance means Tower must reunite with his former comrades. Each returns with their own agenda. And while great power might come with great responsibility, theres little of that on display from any of them.Combining compelling storytelling and fierce...

Binding: Hardback;416 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: FF; Weight: 758 g; Dimensions: 240 x 165 x 40

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