Publisher's Synopsis
Mankind s enemies are on the move, and once again humanity is a few steps behind. The fighter, Detective Orozco, hero of the two previous novels in this series, The Human Struggle, is confronted with finding homes for the millions of fighters orphans, stranded by the enemy s assault on their alternate universe, an assault that is leading to its collapse. Orozco s transuniverse orphanage, even assisted by angels, is swamped, and to make matters worse, another fighter, hero of Zone of Illusion, Pavel Saltwater, must crack the code of how, precisely, the enemy is destabilizing multiple human realities throughout the cosmos. And the prospects look grim. Eve Ottenberg has published eleven other novels and a collection of short stories. Her criticism, journalism and short fiction have appeared in many newspapers, magazines and literary journals, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker Briefly Noted section, The Washington Post and she has written a political column for The Village Voice."
