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Samhain Publishing
December 2006
On Sale: December 19, 2006
260 pages
ISBN: 1599983354
EAN: 9781599983356
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Mystery | Thriller
Books burned, adulterers stoned, gays attacked, government
leaders and
institutions controlled by a religious hierarchy, visions of a
worldwide holy war--is it happening in the Middle East...or
in the
United States? It is the theoretical flipside of the Left Behind
series: Ultraconservative religious leaders and their devout
followers
are not swept en masse into heaven but instead form a
politically
powerful coalition spearheaded by a brilliant, monomaniacal
tactician.
As this juggernaut gains momentum, cherished rights and
freedoms are
swept aside, and the United States becomes a theocracy as
fierce and
unforgiving as any within the Islamic world. In Acts of the
Saints,
Paragenesis is that coalition and a man known only as the
Summoner,
never seen in public, is its leader. Two ordinary
citizens--Catherine,
a divorced woman, and Theodore, her alcohol-dependent former
parish
priest--set out to find the coalition's secret nerve-center, the
Citadel, gathering whatever information they can by
traveling the
"Devil's Railroad" from one resistance group to another. In
St. Louis
they meet Martin Sovalle, a bisexual man of startling beauty
with whom
Catherine falls in love and who disappears following a vicious
vigilante attack. Unbeknownst to Catherine and Theo, the
Summoner has
in fact been luring them to his headquarters for the purpose
of playing
out an End Time drama he believes God has relayed to him in
a series of
visions. And Martin Sovalle has become his bait. What
happens once the
lives of these four people collide at the Citadel is
something none of
them--except perhaps the unlikely mystic, Theo--could have
foreseen....
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