X's For Eyes

Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly rich and powerful family of industrialists. Alas life is complicated in mid-1950s USA when youre child heirs to the throne of Sword Enterprises a corporation that has enshrined Machiavellis The Prince as its operating manual and whose patriarch believes Now I am become Death the destroyer of worlds would be a swell company logo. Consider also those long cruel winters at the Mountain Leopard boarding school for assassins in the Himalayas or that Dad may be a supervillain while an uncle occasionally slaughters his nephews and nieces for sport; and the space flight research division of Sword Enterprises accidentally sent a probe through a wormhole into outer darkness and contacted an alien god. Now a bloodthirsty cult and an equally vicious rival firm suspect the Tooms boys know something and will spare no expense nor innocent life to get their claws on them. Between the machinations of the disciples of black gods and good old corporate skullduggery its winding up to be of a hell of a summer vacation for the lads.