A thief named Coop, a specialist in purloining magic objects; steals and delivers a small box to the mysterious client who engaged his services. Coop doesn't know that his latest job could be the end of him, and the rest of the world. Suddenly he finds himself in the company of The Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome enforcement agency that polices the odd and strange. The box isn't just a supernatural heirloom with quaint powers, they tell him. It's a doomsday device. They think. And suddenly, everyone is out to get it.
