The Drifter

by Jason P. Crawford, Angelique Gunnels

Synopsis

Next time you’re in New York City, make sure you give the homeless guy at the bus station a bit of change; he just might be one of the most powerful beings on Earth.In The Drifter, we follow in the footsteps of an amnesiac vagrant as he learns of his special relationship to mankind’s great constructs – the Cities. At first, he takes for granted the gifts he possesses with no more than a bit of curiosity; traffic lights change for him, security guards let him through, and vending machines cough up their treasures.Then the Dark Woman comes for him, and sends the ragged man’s world spinning into oblivion. Without warning, he is drawn back into a world he has forgotten, and agreements sealed long ago are invoked. Old acquaintances come back, for good and for ill, and the ragged man must cope with both these new developments and with the man he once was…a man who was very different than he is now. A god who walks the Earth.Inspired by Jenna Moran’s Nobilis, The Drifter is an exciting, fast-paced adventure featuring challenges faced in both our world and in others, where people have been chosen to embody the very ideas which underlie our existence – Cities, the Forge, Communication – and come face to face with the worst kind of villain.The kind that’s right. The kind that you could have been, given different circumstances. Oh, and the kind that can kill you just by thinking about it.The odds are stacked against him, by circumstance and by design. Can the drifter and his old friends overcome Death and save the world?Or will they die trying?

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Release date: July 5, 2013

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub