{"product_id":"9780998198941","title":"A Shield Against the Darkness","description":"\"If you're looking for a good adventure story with all the best elements of classic pulp, along with dashing Heroes, women with agency, a little romance, and a whole lot of suspense then this is the book for you! Couldn't stop until I'd read the last page, and you won't be able to either.\"\u003cp\u003e- Trish Heinrich,\u003cbr\u003eAuthor of The Vigilantes Trilogy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Airship Daedalus is a fantastic throwback to the days of high-action pulp fiction and weekly comic strips filled with intriguing plots, sharp heroes, and mysterious villains.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Matt Forbeck,\u003cbr\u003eAuthor of Mutant Chronicles, Brave New World,\u003cbr\u003eThe Avengers Encyclopedia, and Halo: New Blood \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApril, 1925 finds ace pilot Jack McGraw fleeing hostile fighter planes and a mysterious zeppelin over the skies of New Jersey. Then a woman from his past invites him to dinner at Thomas Edison's home and drafts him into the A.E.G.I.S. foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that's just Monday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack's mission is to fly an experimental aircraft and lead a crew consisting of his comrades from the Great War against a well-funded secret society bent on pillaging history's great treasures and amassing dangerous power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether with their crewmates, Jack McGraw and Dorothy \"Doc\" Starr encounter sky pirates, Haitian voodoo, terrifying creatures of the deep, an Amazon tree-city, rocket zombies, and an ancient temple where Aleister Crowley attempts to open a dimensional portal and summon a bloodthirsty demon!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the Airship Daedalus comic strip by Todd Downing and Brian Beardsley, A Shield Against the Darkness is the origin story of the Daedalus crew, and a prequel to Assassins of the Lost Kingdom by E.J. Blaine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a retro-pulp action yarn in which mages, mad science, secret societies, occult threats, and lost worlds meet globe-trotting, sky-high aerial action and two-fisted heroism, like the pulp novels of old!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep7 Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49952686932208,"sku":"9780998198941","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998198941","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}