The Earl King By: Robert A. Zarnoch Magnes Knauer is a college dropout, estranged from her difficult father, vacuous mother, and spoiled sister. She's stationed at an insignificant job at an Army post when she meets Koenig - the Earl King - a grown-up, cynical Peter Pan who can be seen only by children, the unloved and those about to die. He presses Magnes to abandon a doomed world and come with him to a storied afterlife...