Captured by Nazis fresh from plundering ancient ruins for occultic artifacts, GI Floyd Sandburg finds himself dragged behind an overloaded caravan of harried shock troops and POWs. Among flotsam from antiquity strewn haphazardly across the desert by careless Third Reich-ers, he discovers a relic. A very special relic; one that seems to give him the ability to travel through space and time. Using the relic Floyd escapes, and soon finds himself hypnotized and unaccountably obsessed with his unexpected deliverance; deliverance at the hands of a pen-sized artifact shaped like a spear, with strange lettering on the side. An artifact that is somehow both thrilling and repulsive at the same time. It is too much for Floyd not to follow the Siren call of his curious soul. He uses the relic and is taken to the world from where it came. A world where the relic is stolen, and Floyd Marooned. The land is crazy, and men are giants who tame all beasts; Floyd a curiosity to be exhibited. But imprisonment isn't the kind of gig to keep Floyd Sandburg licked. He soon escapes into that realm of undiluted lore, where he is snatched up into a plot of kings to topple a hegemony and liberate the nations. A plot stretching across eons, and with an intimate part in the politics and world-shaping of our own modern era, where the puppetmasters hide in darkness and aim to make us sheep. With the power of the ancients, will Floyd save the world, or lose himself? Blood and cries, thunder, fire--and the demons of the mind, or are they really real? The Lens is calling, the focus tightens, and what was then has always been, when jets of steam burst through the starry night...