Every hour, childlike Marc Rochat circles the Lausanne cathedral as the watchmen have done for centuries. Then one day a beautiful woman draws him out of the shadowsβthe angel his mother once promised him would come.
But Katherine Taylor is no angel. Sheβs one of the toughest and most resourceful call girls in Lausanne. Until something unnatural seething beneath a new clientβs request sends her fleeing to the sanctuary of an unlikely protector.
Into their refuge comes Jay Harper. The private detective has awakened in Lausanne with no memory of how he got thereβand only one thing driving him forward: a series of unsettling murders he feels compelled to solve.
*Pray for the three strangers. They have something in common they canβt begin to imagine. *
Review
"Powers along at an irresistible pace and is written with real panache and verve" Ed Stourton "A very fine, beautifully written, hypnotic tale... very special" Bookseller "A commodious and seductive cosmic thriller... Steele's lavishly atmospheric, witty, bloody, and swashbuckling tale of age-old struggles for dominion between angels and demons is the propitious first book in an ambitious new series" Booklist "Pretty damn good... A great first novel" SFX
About the Author
Jon Steele was born in the American west and worked as an award winning cameraman/editor for ITN for more than twenty years. He has travelled and worked through seventy-eight countries across six continents. War Junkie, his autobiography of a life behind the camera in some of the worst places on earth, was published in 2002 by Transworld and has become a cult classic of war reportage. In 2003, while in Baghdad at the start of the Iraq war, he became disillusioned with television news, put his camera on the ground and quit. He hid out in a small village in the south of France, writing and taking long walks in quiet places. He went back alone to Iraq in 2008 and lived for three months with an American combat unit, recording their lives for the breakthrough documentary film, The Baker Boys: Inside the Surge. He currently lives in Switzerland with his Jordanian-born wife and their two cats, Zeus and Zorro.