The Doomsday Men Stephen Baxter The power of the storytelling

The power of the storytelling is mesmerising

A horrific fire in an East London fashion store and workshop tests him and his watch to the limit

But it's not a game to Bryan

and a disquieting appearance at a writers' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly amongst the audience

When he finds a crooked storyteller with the magical ability to read him back

The Doomsday Men Stephen Baxter The power of the storytellingThree strangers, each on a separate mission, converge in the California desert. Jimmy Edlin is hot on the trail of a religious cult he believes is responsible for his brother's murder; George Hooker is a physicist in search of a missing colleague; and Malcolm Darbyshire is an Englishman looking for a beautiful heiress who has vanished without a trace. When the three men come together and discover that their situations are intertwined, they join forces