Los Angeles is filled with ghosts — and half-ghosts, and ghost hunters, and ghost junkies — chasing each other in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes Los Angeles, a young boy inhales the last breath of Thomas Edison, and becomes a precious prize in a deadly hunt for the elusive vital spark. Brimming with the wild imagination and heart-stopping escapades that won Tim Powers the World Fantasy Award, Expiration Date is an exuberant and inventive tale from one of fantasy’s most original talents.

Tim Powers is the astonishingly popular author of The Anubis Gates (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award), On Stranger Tides, The Stress of Her Regard, Last Call, which won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, Earthquake Weather, and Declare Powers lives in Muscoy, California.