Lectures on the Steam-Engine: In Which Its Construction and Operation Are Familiarly Explained (1832)

Jim Erikson’s wife and daughter were killed by an unknown gunman and he was pronounced dead at the scene of the crime. Miraculously he woke up in the hospital, but discovered his whole reason for living had been taken away from him. Two years later, as he is about to end his life in order to escape the constant nightmares and self incriminations, he finds himself on a trail that he thought had gone cold. He is forced to wade his way through corporate corruption and government conspiracy as he searches for those that are ultimately responsible for his angst. Immoral genetic engineering lurks in the shadows and nobody is who they appear to be. Jim begins to doubt his own identity as well. He starts to feel as if he is faceless, faithless, and alone. He thinks his face is nothing more than a mask. An Executioner’s Mask.