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THE MERLIN CHRONICLES: REVELATIONS
By: 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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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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