The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

The ultimate book-lover’s fantasy,featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the worldfor fans of The MagiciansMr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstoreand The Invisible Library. For his entire lifeCharley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can’t quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brotherRob — a young lawyer with a normal housea normal fianceeand an utterly normal life — hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuseand he will be discharged from his life’s duty of protecting Charley and the real world from each other. But thenliterary characters start causing trouble in their citymaking threats about destroying the world… and for onceit isn’t Charley’s doing. There’s someone else who shares his powers. It’s up to Charley and a reluctant Rob to stop thembefore these characters tear apart the fabric of reality.