Ex-Purgatory: A Novel (Ex-Heroes)

ISBN: 0804136610

Author: Clines, Peter

Condition: New

The fourth novel in Peter Clines' bestselling Ex series.When hes awake, George Bailey is just an ordinary man. Five days a week he coaxes his old Hyundai to life, curses the Los Angeles traffic, and clocks in at his job as a handyman at the local college.But when he sleeps, George dreams of something more.George dreams of flying. He dreams of fighting monsters. He dreams of a man made of pure lightning, an armored robot, a giant in an army uniform, a beautiful woman who moves like a ninja.Then one day as hes walking from one fix-it job to the next, a pale girl in a wheelchair tells George of another world, one in which civilization fell to a plague that animates the deadand in which George is no longer a glorified janitor, but one of humanitys last heroes.Her tale sounds like madness, of course. But as Georges dreams and his waking life begin bleeding together, he starts to wonder-which is the real world, and which is just fantasy?