What if the Cold War never ended? What if a demonic cabal altered history to feed off a hatred that could never end? And then kept Americans and Russians on the razor-edge of war for a thousand years to satisfy that hunger?What if, one day in uttermost space, thousands of innocents are killed, victims of ?military error,? and the deadly balance is upset? Suddenly, all that stands between galactic annihilation of human and spirit-world creatures alike are one magic-hating cop, two deadly assassins, a 10-year-old boy and a cranky old Engine Devil named Scratch.