Pyrates of the Kozmos

A funny, sexy sci-fi thriller with an apocalyptic finish Undercover agent Seven Rives sees himself as a modern-day 007. He's assigned to investigate an old college mate, Rufus Thornberry, (aka. "Mandrake"),now a billionaire rockstar, whose shadowy "Institute for Multidisciplinary Psionics" proclaims the immanent end of civilization as we know it, by some radical new science, or magic, or both. Soon Seven finds himself way over his head in a surreal world of hipsters, hackers, artists, dancers, suburban witches, rogue physicists,funky Tibetan Lamas, and Meso-American shamans. Are they harmless dreamers or dangerous lunatics? Can Seven infiltrate the Institute-- or will they infiltrate him? Either way, the world will never be the same.