Chapter 1 - If There's Been A Fool Around, It's Got To Be Me

Zach Krycek is determined to break away from the family curse that will bind him to the service of DEATH for 100 years, starting when he's eighteen. But his destiny calls early as a viral plague breaks out, forcing him and his best friend into the understaffed Agency's accelerated training program. Except it's hardly a program when there's no deft hand scripting it, and nothing but increasing chaos as a new enemy rises up and steals the gods' magical toys, hoping to use them to end DEATH - even if it will also mean the end of the human race.