A priest is dead. Picking through the rubble of the demolished Edinburgh tenement, Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson discovers that the explosion wasn’t an accident. When a bishop is assassinated soon afterwards, it becomes clear that a targeted campaign of killings is underway.
No one has seen anything like this since the Faith Wars. In this enlightened age there's no religious persecution, but believers are a marginal and mistrusted minority. And now someone is killing them. But who? And - perhaps more importantly - why?
The more his team learns, the more the suspicion grows that they may have stumbled upon a conspiracy way outside their remit. Nobody believes them, but if Ferguson and his people fail, there will be many more killings - and disaster on a literally biblical scale . . .
‘MacLeod spins a yarn that moves at a fast pace, and which doesn’t disappoint
- exciting and intriguing, it keeps a consistent level of interest throughout its passage … a satisfying read’ SciFiNow, 'A twisting conspiracy tale shot through with MacLeod’s gloriously mordant sense for the absurd’ BBC Focus, ‘Gripping and clever near-future thriller’ Lisa Tuttle, The Times, ‘A stunning indictment of fundamentalism of all kinds’ Eric Brown, Guardian
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Published 02/04/2009