<p>Misling is a Recorder having perfect recall and expected to help build a seamless record of all that has been. That&#39;s what the Salt Mystic taught us two thousand years ago when she came stumbling from the flats with her visions. Unfortunately he&#39;s probably the worst Recorder ever. So when he meets a joker with an incredible secret the two of them are soon on the run from swarming lunatics and towering assault troops in the heart of a city under siege.</p><p>As it has for three generations the horrible Talgo family is the spark of this swelling world war; and their wily generals and&nbsp;&nbsp; scheming counselors clash their fleets in battles of shrieking steel-entrained tornados cannonballs of lightning and tanks the size of cities. But it&#39;s the joker&#39;s secret that is the most powerful weapon of all...a trigger set by the Salt Mystic herself in myth to save the world from itself.</p>