For Bill Black, the journey of a lifetime begins when he is truck by a car while standing on his second-floor balcony. Improbable? Definitely, but it's just he beginning of a new normal for the man who will soon be known as Longshot, as he is drawn into a forty year mystery involving thousands of unexplained disappearances. His search will take him and his companions far from everything they know and understand when they walk through a portal to an alternate Earth, and he may find that duty, honor and friendship are not solely human concepts. In the end, a desperate race for survival will determine the fates of those who remain. If they are going to have any chance at all, they will need the luckiest man in the world.
