A spectacular thriller inspired by John Milton?s Paradise Lost, in which the final chapter of the War in Heaven is about to play out on Earth, with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance.
Dutton
August 2011
On Sale: July 21, 2011
Featuring: Bernadette Callahan
400 pages ISBN: 0525952233 EAN: 9780525952237 Hardcover Add to Wish List
When God cast the archangel Satan into Hell, ending the War in Heaven, peace prevailed on Earth. Until the fallen angels took revenge in the Garden of Eden. Ever since, mankind has been in a struggle between good and evil, paradise and apocalypse: the fall of Rome, the Crusades, world wars, nuclear proliferation, the Middle East crisis. The War in Heaven never really endedβit just changed venues. For millennia, Godβs angels have been fighting Satanβs demons on Earth, all in hopes of bringing about Satanβs greatest ambitionβthe apocalypse.
And he has never been closer to his goal than right now.
Agent Bernadette Callahan is a talented investigator at a shadowy government organization known only as Section, on the trail of a serial killer with nearly supernatural abilities. Sebastian βBattyβ LaLaurie is a religious historian who knows far too much about the other sideβand that hard-earned knowledge is exactly what Callahan needs. This unlikely duo pairs up for a race across the globe, decoding clues left in ancient texts from the Bible to Paradise Lost and beyond. In the process they stumble upon a vast conspiracyβone beyond the scope of mankindβs darkest imagination.