Frederick Key

Cobalt Agonistes Frederick Key

Someone is trying to kill Cobalt, five years after he gave up being a superhero and became an ordinary man. All of Cobalt's fellow superheroes are dead or wounded. All of their enemies were slaughtered. Why would someone be trying to kill an ex-hero? Gary's life isn't going so well, either. Gary's best friend is about to marry the woman Gary loves. Gary's father is dying. Gary's job stinks and his landlord hates him. Every day feels like Monday morning. Gary is a young man in a terrible bind. Cobalt is the superhero Gary created in childhood. Each is in the fight of his life-one against a horde of supervillains, the other against overwhelming heartbreak. Can either find the will to see his way through? Or will he ultimately succumb to betrayal, lies, loss-and his own weaknesses? Cobalt Agonistes is Frederick Key's novel of facing personal disaster, of finding the will to fight, and of facing the flaws in the man-and finding the hero within.