As a professional thief and a wand for hire, Daniel Faust has taken on plenty of heists. From ancient relics to cold hard cash, there’s never been a prize too dangerous to steal…until now. The Enemy’s book is more than a trove of ancient secrets: it’s linked to the Enemy himself, a direct conduit to the living incarnation of entropy, and might offer the best way to take him down.

But doomsday is coming, and the book has a few advantages: it’s sentient, it nearly killed Daniel once before, and it’s ready for a rematch. Oh, and there isn’t just one copy. There are three, scattered across three different worlds. Armed with sorcery, weird science and a little help from their friends, Daniel and his infernal lover Caitlin will have to take this heist on the road and dive into some of the strangest — and most deadly — corners of the multiverse.

A gangster and a demon might be the least likely pair to try and stop the apocalypse, but they’re the best options we’ve got.

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September 5, 2026
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Las Vegas. It's a city of big winners and bigger losers, where fortunes tumble with a roll of the dice. Under all the glitz and sleaze, though, there's another Vegas: a city infested by monsters in human skin, drenched in occult corruption. It's the kind of place where a dash of black magic and a gun could be the only thing standing between you and the gates of hell. The kind of place a man like Daniel Faust calls home.

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Faust is nobody's hero. He's a card-carrying villain by trade, a thief and sorcerer just trying to make a dishonest buck in Sin City. He doesn't have to go looking for trouble, though: trouble finds him. Surviving by his wits, he does his best to save the day (if he absolutely has to), save his own skin (preferably), and beat the odds on his way to the next big score.

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