THE BOOK OF SAM

He had nothing left to lose.

Then the sky gave him everything.

Sam Vance was a man the world had already thrown away — the job gone, the home gone, the woman he

• loved gone — when the lights came down over the lake. and took him.

They returned him changed. A single thought now sheathes him head to toe in living silver, a humanoid mirror that wears the world on its surface and bends every weapon away. Flight. Telekinesis. Power over matter, weather, and the earth itself. Everything the machine that broke him said he would never have.

But the gift is reading him from the inside, and a man made mostly of grief is the most dangerous thing there is to hand a god’s power. As Sam turns that power on the institutions that ground him down, only two people can still reach the man inside the mirror — the woman

• who never stopped loving him, and the one investigator who understands that nothing on earth can stop him.

Nothing, perhaps, but Sam himself.