Rob Reid.
Year Zero.
Del Rey. 2012
Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank,
not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun
show up at his office.
But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials.
The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on American pop songs
ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us),
resulting in the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang,
and bankrupting the whole universe.
Nick has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly.
Thankfully, this unlikely galaxy-hopping hero does know a thing or two about copyright law.
Now, with Carly and Frampton as his guides,
Nick has forty-eight hours to save humanity—while hoping
to wow the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.