When good people are powerless to stop a terrible evil, it will take a devil to save us all.In the mid-21st Century, a global conflict known as the Shadow War escalated between the ruling Shadow Corps and a corrupt World Parliament until both sides were in defeat. Since then, Humanity celebrated 300 years of peace until the arrival of an alien scourge that exterminated life on Earth. All but one.The survivor is Mephisto, the former leader of the Shadow Corps secretly living in exile. Unable to stop the apocalypse, he instead devises a plan to lure the alien threat back to the only point in history with a chance – the onset of the Shadow War.Now the master of time must convince the Shadow Corps to collaborate with its enemies even as they plot against each other. Deception, betrayal and vengeance abound in a gambit where failure guarantees the extinction of mankind and success could mean trading one evil for anotherAuthor, Corin Hamilton, debuts a provocative tale of science-fiction that contorts a framework of fantasy with the dark psychologies of a man-turned-devil and other characters irreversibly altered by technology and ultimate power.