A mild-mannered professor must summon his hardboiled mystery writer alter-ego to save an innocent woman from a life-shaking challenge.
When a mild-mannered English professor, John Dykstra, faces a challenge that shakes him to his core, he has to make a choice - leave an innocent woman to die, or summon his alter-ego, the hardboiled mystery writer Rick Hardin to save her.
Stephen Baxter