A Shield Against the Darkness

<p>April 1925 finds ace pilot Jack McGraw fleeing hostile fighter planes and a mysterious zeppelin over the skies of New Jersey. Then a woman from his past invites him to dinner at Thomas Edison's home and drafts him into the A.E.G.I.S. foundation.</p><p><br></p><p>And that's just Monday.</p><p><br></p><p>Jack's mission is to fly an experimental aircraft and lead a crew consisting of his comrades from the Great War against a well-funded secret society bent on pillaging history's great treasures and amassing dangerous power.</p><p><br></p><p>Together with their crewmates Jack McGraw and Dorothy Doc Starr encounter sky pirates Haitian voodoo terrifying creatures of the deep an Amazon tree-city rocket zombies and an ancient temple where Aleister Crowley attempts to open a dimensional portal and summon a bloodthirsty demon!</p><p><br></p><p>Based on the <em>Airship Daedalus</em> comic strip by Todd Downing and Brian Beardsley <em>A Shield Against the Darkness</em> is the origin story of the <em>Daedalus </em>crew and a prequel to <em>Assassins of the Lost Kingdom </em>by E.J. Blaine.</p><p><br></p><p>It's a retro-pulp action yarn in which mages mad science secret societies occult threats and lost worlds meet globe-trotting sky-high aerial action and two-fisted heroism like the pulp novels of old!</p>