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THE
BLURB
One morning in 1995, Jonah Ransom,
clothier, is going about his everyday business when he meets a beautiful
demon in his storecupboard. At around the same time, the King of England
with his entire court, vanishes abruptly before the astonished eyes of his
public as he prepares to attend Mass. Even in an England where the
Reformation failed, and magic has become a commonplace tool of the
all-powerful Catholic Church, such events could be described as unusual.
Before long, it is apparent that
something very different is abroad - magic ceases to work in its
accustomed way, instability and political unrest threaten to disrupt a
society used to order and rigid social obedience. Eventually the Pope is
sufficiently perturbed to send one of his beloved (by him) and dreaded (by
the public in general) Sicarii to investigate the disturbance.
Arriving late on the scene, Adam (he has no other name), Sicarii
extraordinaire, sometime spy, sometime security officer, sometime
assassin, discovers a mystifying power at work, a power that can twist not only
souls, but his entire world inside out.
Second volume of the Continuum
series
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