"An original collection of interwoven short stories set in the Wild Cards universe, where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to others...An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Croyd Crenson is the Wild Card's greatest failure-and its greatest success...What follows is a journey through Croyd's long and colorful life, through the lens of some who have encountered the world's most unusual wild carder"--
