The Agent

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Out-of-work crooner Mike Hennesy is just trying to stay afloat when an old stage acquaintance, Vera, steers him toward a mysterious agent named Quontas Quoron. In Quoron's odd office, a crowd of desperate singers, comics, and performers is being hired on the spot, no audition required, no questions answered. The promise is irresistible: instant work, food, lodging, and a better life. But Mike's hardboiled instincts tell him the setup is too smooth to be honest. As he meets the Quoron brothers and their dazzling secretary, the operation grows more unsettling, mixing comic satire of show business with a classic pulp warning about easy success and hidden costs. Once Mike signs, the story veers from backstage noir into the surreal: thunder shakes the waiting room, everyone is frozen, then lifted into the air by an unseen force. Panic erupts, and Quontas finally appears with a chilling announcement—"We have arrived." What begins as a sly entertainment-world hustle becomes a strange cosmic journey into the unknown.