Probably the most downright likeable of the Dark Future books, purely because of the alternative version of an Elvis who abandoned music and went back into the Army while the world went to hell, came out a Colonel and set himself up as a Memphis-based Independent Op. He's a tough, decent, downright heroic figure, half-embarrassed by his period of fame, but out to do some good in a rotten old world. Hired by Krokodil for a cool million, they set out for the flooded, abandoned Cape Canaveral, where the agents of Elder Nguyen Seth are out to revive a long-forgotten NASA project. ( )