Crashed UFOs. Dead aliens on ice. Extraterrestrial visitations. This is all the stuff of crackpot conspiracy nuts, right?

Wrong.

A stolen military weapon. A maladjusted little boy who sees "things" at night, and the best professional assassin in the world sent to kill him. And a washed-up journalist who's just been told the most important secret of all time.

Welcome to the realm of The Stickmen, novelist Edward Lee's latest slam-dunk, edge-of-your-seat fictional effort. Here, Lee abandons his hardcore horror roots and perfects one of the most relentless thrillers yet in this age of government subterfuge, disinformation, and conspiracies within conspiracies.