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Forthcoming in mass market paperback from Pocket Books in 2004
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Centuries after the Knights Templar were presumed destroyed at the hands of King Phillip and Pope Clement V, the Order resurfaces as a secret militant arm of the Vatican, tasked with defending Mankind from the supernatural.
Of the Orders' enemies, the greatest are the Fallen, supernatural beings that claim to be fallen angels who seek to wreak havoc on earth. Cade Williams, the lead protagonist in the series, a former member of the Boston Special Tactics and Operations Team, has a chance enounter with the Fallen, losing his wife and scarring him body and soul in the process. Through the encounter he gains his own supernatural abilities which are tapped by the Knights Templar in his role as Knight Commander.
The novel is a work of dark fantasy set in the present and it opens with the police baffled by the discovery that graves across the country are being ransacked, the bodies stolen. Cade and his team are brought in to investigate.
Excerpt
He knows from previous experience that just a few blocks beyond this one the town suddenly ends, becoming a great plain of nothingness, the landscape an artist's canvas that stands untouched, unwanted.
This town has become the center of his universe.
Around him, the blackened buildings sag in crumbling heaps, testimony to his previous visits. He wonders what the town will look like a few weeks from now, when the confrontation that is about to take place has been enacted and re-enacted and re-enacted again, until even these ragged shells stand no more. Would the road, like the buildings, be twisted and torn?
He does not know.
He turns his attention back to his immediate surroundings, for even after all this time, he might learn something new that could lead him to his opponent's true identity.
The sky is growing dark, though night is still hours away. Grey storm clouds laced with green and silver lightning are rolling in from the horizon, like horses galloping to reach the town's limits before the fated confrontation begins. The air is heavy with impending rain and the electrical tension of the coming storm. In the slowly fading afternoon light, the shadows around him stretch and move. He learned early on that they could have a life of their own.
He avoids them now as often as he can.
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