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A foundling boy and his tiny circle of friends must save the world from creatures even less human than they are. Ever since he was abandoned on an Arizona highway three days after his birth, Quinn Quicksilver has lived something of a marginal life. Discovered by lineman Hakeem Kaspar and two buddies and brought to the Mater Misericordiæ orphanage, he was passed over repeatedly for adoption and remained with the nuns, who raised him until he landed a job for Arizona!magazine writing about people too dead to lodge complaints. This very limited stability comes crashing down hours after a strange, unrecognizable magnetism leads him to a valuable gold coin in an abandoned restaurant. As he’s sitting in a diner afterward, he’s suddenly flanked by two members of the Internal Security Agency who quietly demand that he come along without making a fuss. Escaping in the fuss that instantly ensues, Quinn takes it on the lam until that magnetic force brings him up against contractor Sparky Rainking, who moonlights as novelist Daphne Larkrise, and his granddaughter, Bridget. The Rainkings, who have their own history with the ISA, do their best to bring Quinn up to speed, but Bridget’s bombshell announcement that “several sequences in my genome are not human,” though it offers a theory as to why the same people who’ve targeted her and Sparky are now setting their sights on Quinn, raises a lot more questions than it answers. What sort of beings are the Rainkings? Is Quinn not fully human? And what sort of relationships can he expect to form with the other sort-of-humans who seem increasingly to be littering the Arizona landscape? Don’t lose sleep over the answers. Just sit back and enjoy what turns out to be quite a ride. Copyright © Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.