In the discreet little Key West bar that Jake Stonebender established, Fast Eddie Costigan learned to curse back at parrots as he played the house piano; the Reverend Tom Hauptman learned to tend bar bare-chested, and Long-Drink McGonnigle discovered the margarita. Nobody even noticed them save the universe.
After ten quiet years, their laid-back existence is disturbed by a malevolent, moronic Mafioso named Tony Donuts Jr. intending to resurrect the classic protection racket in Key West. Jakes scientifically precocious thirteen-year-old daughter is threatened by the truancy officer and then, thanks to very poor accessorizing, Jakes wife, Zoey, suddenly found herself in a place with no light, no heat, and no air. And no way home. The urgent question was whereprecisely wherebut that turned out to be a problem so complex that even the entire gang, equipped with teleportation, time travel, and telepathic syntony might not be able to crack it in time.

Spider Robinson is renowned for his "Callahan's Place" series of best-selling novels. With his wife, Jeanne, he has written the Hugo- and Nebula-winning "Stardance" series. Winner of three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award, he currently resides on an island near Vancouver, British Columbia, and writes a regular editorial column, "Future Tense," for the Globe and Mail. He is a favorite guest at sci-fi conventions across the United States and Canada.

Barrett Whitener has recorded audiobooks since 1992. His recordings have won several awards, including the Audio Publishers Association's Audie and four Earphones Awards. AudioFile cited him as among "the best voices of the century." He lives in Washington, D.C.