Amazon.com description: Product Description: Several pressing problems face Thursday in this book. First is the Almighty has gotten fed up with people and has taken to smiting them. Swindon knows the date and time of the smiting and has evacuation plans in place, but would like to thwart the smiting via a system Thursday's genius daughter, Tuesday, is working on. Time is short and Tuesday can't get the system up and running. The now-defunct Chrono-Guard has sent letters to some of the citizens of Swindon informing them what their careers would've been if the Chrono-guard hadn't been disbanded. The letters also contain information about how their lives will play out now, including how and when they will die. Most disturbing is Friday's (Thursday's son) letter about his future--which involves a murder and jail time. Thursday must also deal with the fact she isn't as young as she used to be and she's addicted to her pain medicine patches. She's installed as head librarian at the local All-You-Can-Eat-at Fatso's Drink Not Included library, when she wanted to be head of the re-instated Literary Detectives, her former Spec-ops division. She must also deal with Goliath's synthetically engineered Thursday Day Players, impressive look alikes on the outside, but missing vital internal components. They keep showing up and swapping places with the real Thursday, forcing Thursday and her husband Landon to come up with passwords every time they separate, so when they are back together Landon knows if he's talking to his wife or an imposter. ( Amazon customer)