Children of the Company

. . . An astonishing and thoroughly satisfying installment. What's more, Baker's overall concept and rationale, flawlessly sustained through five books, grows ever more spellbinding and impressive."e; Kirkus Reviews Bakers trademark mix of serious speculation and black humor informs this solid addition to her time-travel series. Publishers Weekly The Company created immortals to preserve cultural artifacts, extinct animals, and lost treasures from the annals of human history for their enduring cultural value, and more importantly, for a profit. But what happens when an immortal despises the very people who created that which he is programmed to save? Executive Facilitator General Labienuss career took off in ancient Sumeria, where he was worshiped as a god and learned contempt for his mortal worshippers. Since then, hes had time to contemplate how best to attain power within the Company for his own purposes. From Labienuss subversion of the ADONAI black project to his machinations in San Francisco before the Great Quake, from chocolate wars in Amsterdam to a monastery in Ireland where the Fair Folk might just be a forgotten branch of the human race, Labienuss schemes thread through the Companys history, and as the immortals get closer to the Silence of 2355, the time to unravel them may be running out . . .