The Paradise Prophecy
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Not only does this novel contain many fascinating subjects--history, religion, and literature--it combines them with the thrill of adventure and the lure of a great puzzle to solve. With the prowess of narrator Scott Brick, we have a listening experience that is both fun and absorbing. The story combines present-day espionage with aspects of Milton's PARADISE LOST and the battle between good and evil. Brick's talent shines as he portrays numerous characters from all parts of the globe with agility and skill. He's at his most captivating with the powerless and the dying, and he also beguiles us with the strength of his heroes and the coldness of his villains. K.O. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
Starred review from May 23, 2011
Milton's Paradise Lost provides the backdrop for Browne's riveting, cinematic novel, which charts an epic battle between good and evil. When saint-like pop singer Gabriela Zuada is found burned to a crisp in her dressing room after a performance in São Paulo, Brazil, on the last night of her Glory Revealed World Tour, Bernadette Callahan, field agent for the top-secret government spy agency known as Section, investigates. After other horribly burned bodies surface, Milton scholar Sebastian "Batty" LaLaurie persuades Bernadette that Gabriela's demise is no ordinary murder. Indeed, Beelzebub, Belial, Moloch, and Mammonâa quartet of fallen angels who appropriate human "skins" as a disguiseâare behind the deaths as well as an unholy plot to release Satan to rule over humankind. Only the archangel Michael and his band of puny but courageous humans can defeat the demons. The author, who also writes as Robert Gregory Browne (Down Among the Dead Men), offers consistently smart prose and an ending that points to future thrillers set in this fascinating world.
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