Story Synopsis
God (Adonai) and the Devil (Samael) have worked together for billions of years creating Nature; for the last few hundred million it’s been with a specific intent: to forge a species capable of carrying their work forward into the otherwise sterile universe. Over the past ten or fifteen thousand they’ve come into severe disagreement on the prospects of a single species that is at one and the same time both promising and threatening to the entire enterprise: Homo sapiens. Humankind.
Early in the book Samael convinces Adonai that the sapiens are too inherently destructive to succeed. Adonai, broken-hearted over facts which She knows to be accurate, finally agrees to stop guiding and assisting them and —reluctantly— to allow the sapiens to run themselves into extinction. Her last, best hope for the sapiens, Ann Murphy, a young, new President of the United States with the vision and leadership to steer at this critical juncture the Western world in the right direction, is not likely to get her chance because multiple adversaries — internal to the USA and external to it, human and spiritual— intend to destroy her. Meanwhile, Samael, acting through Iran’s Supreme Leader and the Republican Guards Kuds Force that answers to the Supreme Leader, has developed a plan to cripple modern society: they have invented simple bomb-like devices that convert the breathable oxygen in the air into unbreathable ozone, and planted them in most of the 300 largest cities of the world. When detonated, they will simultaneously strangulate 60% of the world’s population, precipitating chaos and inciting wholesale destruction of humankind.Francis Xavier O’Rourke and Deirdre Anne Kavanagh are two spirits in the afterlife who intend to do whatever they can to change all that. As members of Heaven’s elite Commando force, they league-up in an unusual strike team nicknamed “The Roués.” They boldly venture into the depths of Hell to confront Samael and into the highest reaches of Heaven to address Adonai, angling and bargaining for one last chance to save humanity. They race against time, distance, and human obstacles to try to avert the catastrophe and to support President Murphy. The strain of the many struggles will either destroy all the actors in this narrative or bring them closer together. The fate of humankind lies in the balance.
