Expiration Date

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480434004

<DIV><DIV><B>Nebula Award Finalist:</B>&#160;<B>In the second book of the Fault Lines Trilogy, Tim Powers dazzles with a dark and extraordinary urban fantasy set in an otherworldly LA, as a young boy finds himself targeted by malevolent ghost hunters </B></DIV><DIV><BR /> There is a Los Angeles that few people can see, a shadowed metropolis of ghosts, ghost hunters, and ghost junkies who crave the addictive rush of inhaled spirits. When eleven-year-old Koot Hoomie Parganas decides to flee the constrictive grasp of his New Age parents, he inadvertently steps into this world. Escaping with his parents&rsquo; most prized possession, Koot is soon the object of the most intense supernatural manhunt in history. On an ordinary day, Los Angeles can be treacherous; this &ldquo;other&rdquo; LA could prove downright fatal for an unsuspecting youngster who&rsquo;s suddenly the target of every hungry ghost hunter prowling the City of Angels. But Koot will not be taken easily. And though not everyone racing to Koot&rsquo;s side means him harm, they are greatly outnumbered by malevolent forces driven by a terrible, undeniable need.<BR /><BR /><I>Expiration Date </I>is the second book in the Fault Lines Trilogy, which begins with <I>Last Call </I>and concludes with <I>Earthquake Weather. </I>At once exhilarating and terrifying, this book is a bravura display of the brilliant, bold invention that has moved bestselling author Peter Straub to declare World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick award-winner Tim Powers &ldquo;one of my absolute favorite writers.&rdquo;</DIV></DIV>