The Old Flame

"WHAT is it about these stories, this world of impossibilities? Why are you so insistent that these things are real? You want to believe your stories but they simply cannot be true, Mr. Boyle."

It's 1935 in Washington D.C. and Bobby Boyle has found himself here again, back in his hometown. Hoping to recover from the sudden bereavement of his life's love, he moves into his childhood home on Corcoran Street with his brother, sister-in-law and their eerily precocious, inexplicably familiar toddler.

But the process of repairing his inner desolation is interrupted when he is contacted by an old acquaintance. Jerry Donlan is the last officer of Department 321, a now-defunct, top-secret government agency. He finds Bobby in D.C. and summons him to Cuba, where they devise a plan to stop Donlan's nemesis from destroying an ancient, enchanted prison, unleashing the depravity of 10,000 dark spirits into the world. Much to his dismay, Bobby's previous experience in the esoteric domain of 321 makes him the only candidate for the job. The mission sends Boyle and his band of faithful friends from one end of the globe to the other. Even if they triumph over impossible odds and survive, the crew will never be the same again.

The Old Flame is the third book in the PULPLAND series of supernatural adventure novels by Clyde Wrenn.