Book description
For nine hundred generations, the city of Deepgate has hung suspended
by giant chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss. In the unfathomable
darkness below is said to reside the dread god Ulcis, ‘hoarder of
souls’, with his army of ghosts. Outside the city extend the barren
wastes of Deadsands, inhabited by the enemy Heshette, so that safe
access is guaranteed only by a fleet of airships.
At the hub of the city itself rises the Temple, in one of whose many
crumbling spires resides a youthful angel, Dill, the last of his line.
Descendant of heroic battle-archons, yet barely able to wield the great
sword he has inherited from his forebears, he lives a sheltered
existence under the watchful eye of Presbyter Sypes, who rules the
Temple. For despite his sense of purposelessness, Dill has a destiny
about to unfold - one that will take him down into terrifying depths of
the pit in a desperate quest to save the teeming but precarious city
from total annihilation at the hands of a cunning and resourceful
traitor. First-time novelist Alan Campbell has worked as a
coder/designer on the phenomenally successful Grand Theft Auto
video games, Vice City
and San Andreas
.
