How can one man end the world? How can a dead boy save it? Kurt William O'Dell is a dangerous man. He has the power to tell people to do what he wants, and what he wants is for the world to burn. Alone, O'Dell doesn't possess the strength to control the whole world. To do that, he takes children with powers like his and changes them. Most serve him. One, George Farnham, will not. Only George is strong enough to stand against O'Dell in a war where the battleground is the endless dark highways of the mind...but other forces, more powerful than man or boy, roam those roads. They call themselves US. *** A tale of the apocalypse and the supernatural from the author of Vigil, Rain and Masters of Blood and Bone.