Tycho Caine is a man with a mission. He's sure of that. But, waking up in a body bag with amnesia, he not sure of much else. Except that someone wants him dead. The New York Times Bestselling author of I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron, Michael A. Stackpole brings you an exciting adventure novel of a near-future world where technology and occult mysticism merge. Dark forces and hidden masters conspire to control humanity, and Tycho Caine needs to figure out which side he's on.

The saga of the war against Dark Lord dominion over Earth continues in Evil Ascending, by New York Times Bestselling author, Michael A. Stackpole. Tycho Caine, the former puppet of the Dark Lord known as Fiddleback is in full rebellion against his former master. As Coyote, he completes his training and pulls together a team to fight Fiddleback. Included in them is Rajani, an ET born on Earth, who has been shaped to fight the Dark Lords, and Sinclair MacNeal, who travels to Japan to find the assassin school which created Caine. Where their three paths converge, Dark Lords clash, and reality warps like heated wax.

In this concluding volume of the Fiddleback Trilogy, the old saying that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," is sorely put to the test. Pygmalion, apprentice to the Dark Lord Fiddleback, has rebelled against his master and has established himself as a Dark Lord. To defeat him, Coyote and Fiddleback must join forces. Pygmalion is not without his own allies. He has taken an apprentice, the god-man Ryuhito, grandson of the Japanese Emperor. Through him, Pygmalion horrific power is amplified. But the fires of betrayal burn within Ryuhito's heart, and his grandfather will spare no expense to get his grandson back. Deceit, treachery and revenge boil together in this war of Dark Lords and their minions. Coyote and his aides, mere humans all, go to war with the Dark Lords to prevent the nightmare of... Evil Triumphant