The Plain Man

Praise for "The Plain Man""Long before Buffy and Angel took up the good fight, long before Dresden began his Files, Max August was out there all alone, our point man in keeping the mundane world safe from the supernatural one. Now, after too long a hiatus, Max August is back with a vengeance!"--Bill Willingham, bestselling author of "Fables" "Max August isn't invincible but he never ages, a handy side-effect he picked up from studying alchemy under a 500-year old Master who's now dead. Pam Blackwell is new to alchemy and is just learning the range of her magickal abilities. Max and Pam - along with others who have strong magickal talents - have dedicated themselves to fighting the FRC, a nine-member assembly bent on controlling the world. When they get word that two members of the FRC plan on attending Wickr - a Burning Man-like festival held in the Nevada desert - Max and Pam set out, determined to get information from them. Little do they know that the FRC has already planned their own deadly fireworks show and Max and Pam are running out of time to stop them."The Plain Man" is the third novel in the Max August series and although it references events and characters from the first two books, the flashbacks are more for flavor and color as Englehart's latest novel is perfectly capable of standing on its own. With a well-developed magickal system and a cast of intriguing (and sometimes bizarre) characters, Englehart provides the perfect vehicle for a rambunctious and enjoyable joyride."--"San Francisco Book Review" "This is a worthy successor to the first Max August books. Steve Englehart has created a series of rip-roaring, page turning, pulp tomes that function as teaching tools about the current state of incipient fascism in American politics and the uses of the imagination and the occult therein.Think "Carolyn Casey meets Jeff Sharlet." Think "J.K. Rowling meets Ian Fleming." What if the hippy radicals really could have levitated th