Sometimes the only thing harder to face than your oldest enemy is your oldest friend.
"A sucker-punch of sheer delight"
Adam Christopher, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Wonders.
"The Avengers meets The Breakfast Club"
James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of Nomad
"There is a vibrancy reminiscent of my favourite coming-of-age novels."
Nick Cutter, author of The Deep
"A spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes"
Charles Stross, bestselling author of The Atrocity Archives
Rick Tower, an unremarkable professor at an unremarkable New England college has a secret. It began twenty-five years ago in 1991, in a room in a community center with three other lost teenagers, each with a strange power, facing their last chance to avoid a lifetime in metahuman confinement facilities.
The four of them came together for one glorious summer to win freedom and battle unspeakable evil. But then came college, and divorces and lapsed friendships and turning forty, and now that brightest period of their lives is the last thing anyone wants to think about.
But the chance discovery of an obituary in a small-town newspaper reawakens an old mystery no one can afford to ignore…