Resuscitated after he drowns and dies in a flood, David Flint discovers he has returned from the other side with an uncanny ability: He can "jump" into people's bodies and minds, and control their thoughts and actions.David believes it's a gift, and wants to use it to help people. Then four members of a ruthless drug ring savagely attack his fianc e and leave her in a coma, and David tries to use his new power to destroy the whole ring. But the ringleader, a voodoo priest known as the Zombie Master, is a formidable man with a deadly secret: He has the same incredible ability as David.When the two human marionette masters clash in a brutal bloody showdown, using the ring's members as their puppets, David discovers he's battling for much more than his life-he's fighting to rid the world of an evil human abomination.Marionettes illuminates the greatest achievements of the human spirit and the darkest corridors of our minds, and answers the age-old question: What are the consequences of absolute power?