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The Merlin Chronicles: Revelations
Daniel Diehl
Merlin has Returned to Our World
The Book of Revelations #1
Sunbury Press
December 2012
On Sale: December 12, 2012
Featuring: Morgana LeFay; Merlin the Magician; Jason Carpenter
338 pages
ISBN: 1620061376
EAN: 9781620061374
Kindle: B00ALZ6MSI
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Fantasy Urban
JASON CARPENTER, an American Doctoral candidate in
Archaeology studying at the University of York, England,
has been assigned to lead his first dig at the ancient
castle of Tintagel on the coast of Cornwall. Here he is
allowed to supervise the excavation of the castle's midden,
or cesspool. Content with his lot in life and
contemplating dating his fellow student BEVERLEY
McCULLOUGH, Jason's world is turned inside out when, at the
bottom of the midden, he uncovers a strange glass ball.
When Jason, his professor and the experts, can come to
no conclusion as to the identity of the strange object,
Jason is catapulted to fame; a giddy state of affairs which
collapses when the laboratory holding the sphere is
shattered by an explosion.
Thinking his career has come to an end, Jason's life
becomes even weirder when the globe's previous occupant,
MERLIN the magician, appears in Jason's apartment where he
unfolds a strange and convoluted tale involving MORGANA le
FAY – the cruel and ever resourceful
half–sister of King Arthur – who has survived
fifteen centuries to become the head of an unsavory
international conglomerate dealing in weapons, drugs, oil
and international crime. More than skeptical, Jason not
only doubts his strange visitor's veracity but his own
sanity, as Merlin spins a story of deceit and revenge that
destroyed Arthur's kingdom and led the sorcerer into
self–imposed exile where he hid from Morgana and her
allies, an army of dragons described in the Biblical Book
of Revelations and confirmed in medieval legends.
Slowly Merlin convinces Jason of the danger now facing
the world. Only so long as Merlin was hidden in his
crystal sphere, could he keep Morgana and the dragons at
bay. Now that he has been exposed he is vulnerable and if
Morgana kills him there will be nothing to prevent the
dragons from returning to destroy the earth.
Enlisting Jason's help to deal with a world beyond his
comprehension, and thwart the vast technological array of
Morgana's business conglomerate, Merlin and his reluctant
companion are sucked into a maelstrom of nightmarish
adventures, murder and deceit which take them from the
Liverpool Museum to such unlikely sites as the barren
wastelands of Outer Mongolia. During their travels they
alternately pursue, and are pursued by, an army of Triad
gangsters, a five hundred year old Chinese wizard and a
trio of ancient demonic demigods, all of whom are in
Morgana's employ.
In the climactic chapters Jason and Merlin take refuge
in a Buddhist monastery where Morgana locates them and
sends her pet dragon to find and kill them. Only by
relinquishing his role as Merlin's student, and becoming a
leader in his own right, can Jason destroy the dragon,
become the hero of his own story and set the stage for the
second book in the trilogy.
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