The Breath of God

Guy Adams

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780857682826
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857686008
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

The nineteenth century is about to draw to a close. In its place will come the twentieth, a century of change, a century of science, a century that will see the superstitions of the past swept away. There are some who are determined to see that never happens. A body is found crushed to death in the London snow. There are no footprints anywhere near it. It is almost as if the man was killed by the air itself. This is the first in a series of attacks that sees a handful of London's most prominent occultists murdered. While pursuing the case, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves travelling to Scotland to meet with the one person they have been told can help: Aleister Crowley. As dark powers encircle them, Holmes' rationalist beliefs begin to be questioned. The unbelievable and unholy are on their trail as they gather a group of the most accomplished occult minds in the country: Doctor John Silence, the so-called "Psychic Doctor"; supernatural investigator Thomas Carnacki; runic expert and demonologist, Julian Karswell... But will they be enough? As the century draws to a close it seems London is ready to fall and the infernal abyss is growing wide enough to swallow us all. A brand-new original novel, detailing a thrilling new case for the acclaimed detective Sherlock Holmes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Chapter One: The Death of Hilary De Montfort
• Chapter Two: The Psychical Doctor
• Chapter Three: Silence’s Account
• Chapter Four: The Best of the Scotland Yarders
• Chapter Five: An Expert in Tittle-Tattle
• Chapter Six: Interlude: The Peculiar Supper of Lord Ruthvney
• Chapter Seven: The Return of Silence
• Chapter Eight: Ruthvney Hall
• Chapter Nine: Terror Underground
• Chapter Ten: Journeying North
• Chapter Eleven: Interlude: The Account of Thomas Carnacki
• Chapter Twelve: A Fold in Reality
• Chapter Thirteen: A Meeting in Bloomsbury
• Chapter Fourteen: Emergency Stop
• Chapter Fifteen: Assassin in the Night
• Chapter Sixteen: The Laird of Boleskine
• Chapter Seventeen: Interlude: The Account of Aleister Crowley
• Chapter Eighteen: A Letter
• Chapter Nineteen: The Battle of Boleskine
• Chapter Twenty: A Letter (Continued)
• Chapter Twenty-One: His Return
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Back to the Capital
• Chapter Twenty-Three: The Breath of God
• Chapter Twenty-Four: The Last Sigh
• Notes on What is Real and What is Not
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
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