The Plain Man
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Magick and reality collide in a new, fast-paced Max August thriller
Max August is not invulnerable, but he never ages—a gift he earned while studying under the legendary alchemist Cornelius Agrippa. August, now an alchemist himself, is using his magickal abilities to fight the right-wing conspiracy known as the FRC, which seeks to control all aspects of society. At the top of the FRC is a nine-member cabal, each member of which is a powerful force in one area of society, such as media, politics, finance…and wizardry.
When Max learns that two members of the cabal are en route to Wickr, a Burning Man–like festival held in the American Southwest, he stages a plan to gather information from them and, he hopes turn one member against the others. Max has been careful not to leave a trail, but the cabal sees all, and an "accident" at a nuclear waste facility just 100 miles from the festival would send a clear message to those who oppose the FRC. Max may be timeless, but he is running out of time to stop the FRC and save millions of lives.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Englehart follows 1981's The Point Man and 2010's The Long Man with a fairly ordinary thriller given life with injections of a magical theory influenced by Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminati and Mayan mythology. Max August and his fellow alchemists battle a right-wing cabal called the FRC, which has run the American government throughout the Bush/Cheney era and now struggles to maintain control after Obama's election. The stage for the fight, conducted in both the physical and magical planes, is the circus-like atmosphere of Wickr, a thinly disguised Burning Man festival. Englehart's work on Captain America, The Fantastic Four, and Superman has given him a terse, quick-moving prose style ("Listen, about last night " "Had to be done." "Yeah, it did. But I never wanted to hurt you"), and plenty of supernatural action and pop culture references will please his comics-reading fans.
