THE SHORT OF IT:
When Sally Reiser joined the infamous network, it was to protect her handicapped child, targeted by those who would get to her through him. But the network that kept them safe has been infiltrated by invisible agents. The organization has taken up a sinister new purpose, to murder Sally and her eight-year-old autistic son, then spark conflagration in the always tense Middle East. How far and fast will this mother run to escape a fate fueled by religious fanaticism and decreed a thousand years before she was born? To steer through her trials, she must forge new alliances, repudiate old convictions, and trust in powers beyond Man's comprehension.
THE LONG OF IT:
In Last Days and Times, Sally Reiser, disaffected Jew and hardly-coping abused single mother, discovers that she is the seer of God. Her family has been designated to see the works of God, no matter how beautiful or terrible, and she is the last in her family's line. But Sally doesn't want this weighty responsibility. She sees God as the source of hardship in her life. He is the reason she has attempted suicide on more than one occasion, the reason she has made such terrible choices in men, the reason why her son Eulie was born palsied, autistic, and mentally retarded. Sally has no love of God.
Then Gary LaMonte enters her life, a struggling graduate student in religious studies consulting with the state's attorney general on the recent rise in religion-based felony crime. Gary proves to be everything Sally wants in a man, honest, caring, solicitous, and responsible. And he cares a great deal for her son. Gary and Sally are on their way toward a fulfilling relationship when FBI agent Rosa Vasquez pushes into their lives with dire news of religious terrorism on American soil.
Gary and Sally become embroiled in a world-spanning game of life-or-death chessmanship against a powerful and startling enemy, a wealthy radio evangelist who is secretly a two-thousand-year-old Roman legate forced by Jesus Christ himself to live unaging until the end times. This man, Arthur Davidson, has long since tired of living and attempts an insane plan to bring about the apocalyptic prophecies of the Bible in order to hasten Judgment Day and gain the peace of death. In the end, Sally, aided by a secretive anti-terrorist organization known only as the network, plays a pivotal role in defeating Davidson's plans to obliterate civilization. Davidson's organization is destroyed and the immortal himself sinks to the bottom of Lake Michigan, his body riddled with bullets.
Eighteen months later, Sally, Gary, and Rose are part of the network, cleaning up the last of Davidson's organization and arresting the plans of other religious fanatics. Sally is kidnapped from her safehouse in London. The network exposes most of its european operations in a frenetic drive to get her back. When they do, they learn that something new has entered the game, something with the ability to pervert the laws of reality to destructive ends. In the process, a new enemy, the ancient order of the Knights Templar, thought to be disbanded a thousand years ago, emerges to contest the network. The Templars disrupt network operations and communications and replace key network operatives with their own hostile agents. Their mission: kill Sally Reiser and her eight-year-old son Eulie to ensure no seer lives to discover their larger plans.
But Sally has more allies than she knows. As she flees across Europe to avoid death at Templar hands, she is taken in by the Vatican, which shelters her and her friends while they decide what to do about the Templars. She also finds sanctuary with three angel-like immortals who have chosen to live outside the mainstream of humanity, to watch and witness, but not to act. Lastly, Davidson returns from the deeps, hauled from Lake Michigan by the remnants of his followers. Will he exact vengeance for his defeat, or has he learned his lesson? Sally must manage all of these new agents in her life. She must not be owned by them, nor destroyed by them. She must find her own path through blood, fear, and betrayal, but then she was born to see that path. She needs only the wisdom to choose it.
In this sequel to Last Days and Times, Stephan Michael Loy paints an intense picture of power gone mad. A fantasy thriller traversing the world from Lake Michigan to the deserts of Israel, Redemption Song is a fast-paced, gripping tale of soldiers and terrorists, philosophers and sociopaths, of angels and monsters. Sally Reiser must see the works of God. But can she see her way from darkness to light and bring with her the people she loves?
Redemption Song. Book two in Last Days and Times. Book three in the Nightwatch series
Urban Fantasy - Adult themes - Language - Action/fantasy violence