"My name is unimportant, but you can call me Jack. I'm a musician by choice, a magician by profession, and a bastard by disposition. I'd been doing the magic thing for about five years when they found me. They said I had a talent, that I was smart enough and fit enough and enough of a shit that I could serve my country in a way most people never even get to hear about. And I did want to serve my country, didn't I? I didn't really want to contemplate what might happen if I said no."
And so Jack found himself on the front line of a secret war, so bizarre, so terrifying that most people simply wouldn't believe it was possible. Working for a secret organisation tasked with defending our country from whatever supernatural threat faces it. MI5 know nothing about it and would laugh if they found out. Well at first they would ...
Wherever the forces of darkness gather, Jack is there in the shadows, waiting for them.
He is a very modern sort of magician - trained in a variety of the magical arts, adept at exorcism but also a dab hand with a Heckler and Koch, skilled in unarmed combat and electronic surveillance. And with a coven of witches calling on their dark master to help them assassinate the prime minister he?s going to need all those skills and more.
David Devereux has combined the action writing of Andy McNab with dark supernatural thrills and produced a blistering new breed of supernatural thriller.
ISBN: 057507986X
Published by Gollancz on the 21st of June, 2007
