Ghosts can be caught, and bottled, and sold by covert dealers to addictswho inhale the things—and when a young boy named Kootie accidentallyinhales the ghost of Thomas Edison, he finds that all the factions of LosAngeles' occult underground are after him, determined to kill him and getEdison's powerful ghost for themselves.Aided by Edison's confused andirascible ghost, Kootie flees—and finds himself dodging perils naturalandsupernatural in the gritty alleys and trainyards of a Los Angeles thattourists never see.Fromm the slums around the L.A. River, to the abandonedHoudini mansion in the Hollywood Hills, to a finaldramatic confrontation onthe haunted ocean liner Queen Mary docked in Long Beach, Expiration Date isaheart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's mostoriginal talents.