A modern-day Lazarus is humanity’s last hopein a breathtaking novel about the absolute powers of good and evil byDean Koontz, the #1New York Timesbestselling master of suspense.MichaelMace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens hiseyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in whicheveryone perished—including him and his best friend, ShelbyShrewsberry.Having awakened with an extraordinaryability unlike anything he—or anyone else—has ever imagined, Michael iscapable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his latefriend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatlyadmired. Although what Michael does for Nina is life changing, hisactions also evoke the wrath of John’s father, a member of one of themost violent street gangs in Los Angeles.But aneven greater threat is descending: the Internal Security Agency’s mostvicious assassin, Durand Calaphas. Calaphas will stop at nothing to gethis man. If Michael dies twice, he will not live a third time.Fromthe tarnished glamour of Beverly Hills to the streets of South Centralto a walled estate in Rancho Santa Fe, only Michael can protect Nina andJohn—and ensure that light survives in a rapidly darkening world.