Kings of Infinite Space

"Paul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-notch university teaching job, to a textbook publisher, to, eventually, working as a temp writer for the General Services Division of the Texas Department of General Services. And even here, in this world of carpeted partitions and cheap lighting fixtures, Paul cannot escape the curse his life has become. For it is not until he begins to reach out to the office's comely and sharp-tongued mail girl that he begins to notice things are truly wrong. There are sounds coming from the air-conditioning vents, bulges in the ceiling, and a corpse in the next cube. There are the strange men lurking about town, wearing thick glasses and pocket protectors."--BOOK JACKET.Hynes, James is the author of 'Kings of Infinite Space' with ISBN 9780312992668 and ISBN 0312992661.