An alien supervillain threatens the human colony on a future parallel Earth, a steampunk reimagining of the Fu Manchu mythos.
Sax Rohmer calls the colonel out of retirement with news that Dr. Brute, an insane Fox-scientist, has invaded the human colony to exterminate all human life on New Earth. A hybrid of supernatural charisma, Brute has revived instruments of death from lost technology and alien lore. Even Sax cannot predict his next move--only that it will employ inscrutable tools of destruction.