Book description
For thousands of years a secret war has been fought between Heaven
and Hell. Daemons and angels, vampyres and knights, clash for the
future of mankind, and as the two sides wage war across the world,
innocent people are caught up in the conflict - men like Captain
William Saxon and Lieutenant Kieran Harte, two great friends who have
recently survived the horrors of the Battle of Waterloo.
But now they face a greater struggle, against the daemonic forces
of Count Ordrane, and the clandestine ambitions of the Vatican. They
must try to survive assassination attempts, political machinations,
epic battles on land and sea, and above all the power of a mysterious
bronze pyramid - the Scarimadean - that brings everlasting damnation
too all who come into contact with it.
Their only allies are an old man, a fading secret organisation in
the Church, and an enigmatic warrior, who may hold the key not only to
the friends' fates, but to the fate of all mankind . . .
M. F.W. Curran was born in Essex, in 1974. From an early
age he was brought up on a diet of fantasy and science-fiction and has
been writing stories since he was ten years old. In a past life he
worked in the banking industry, for the Government, as a music
journalist, and a lyric-writer. The Secret War is his first
novel. He lives in Sheffield with his wife, Sarah.
