# Expiration Date

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- Book: [Expiration Date](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-powers/expiration-date) ([Expiration Date.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-powers/expiration-date.md))
- Authors: [Tim Powers](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-powers)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-14-7321-198-8
- Published: 2015-04-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Twelve-year-old Koot Hoomie Parganas's parents prepared him for a career as a metaphysical holy man - but after they're brutally murdered one night he finds himself a fugitive in the darkest corners of Los Angeles, pursued by denizens of a dark underworld who want what Kootie's parents have been hiding for 40 years - the ghost of Thomas Edison contained in a bust of Dante. But Kootie has broken the bust and inhaled the ghost, and now has in his head the lively personality of Edison himself - and together Kootie and Edison must learn the harsh rules of the occult world existing behind the glitter of modern Los Angeles, and find a way to save Kootie's life and free Edison's ghost from its earthly Purgatory.