by Mark Chadbourn (Author)
This is the Ultimate Fantasy: a quest of epic reach spanning the globe under the mythologies of five great cultures - and finally crossing the barrier between life and death. Jack Churchill, archaeologist and dreamer, walks out of the mist and into Celtic Britain more than two thousand years before he was born, with no knowledge of how he got there. All Jack wants is to get home to his own time where the woman he loves waits for him. Finding his way to the timeless mystical Otherworld, the home of the gods, he plans to while away the days, the years, the millennia, until his own era rolls around again ...but nothing is ever that simple. A great Evil waits in modern times and will do all in its power to stop Jack's return. In a universe where time and space are meaningless, its tendrils stetch back through the years ...Through Roman times, the Elizabethan age, Victoria's reign, the Second World War to the Swinging Sixties, the Evil sets its traps to destroy Jack. Mark Chadbourn gives us a high adventure of dazzling sword fights, passionate romance and apocalyptic wars in the days leading up to Ragnarok, the End-Times: a breathtaking, surreal vision of twisting realities where nothing is quite what it seems.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 20 Jul 2006
ISBN 10: 0575078006
ISBN 13: 9780575078000
Book Overview: Mark Chadbourn made SFX's best ten authors of the year and best ten novels of the year with THE DEVIL IN GREEN THE QUEEN OF SINISTER was a 'Waterstones Recommends' and made him the subject of a major profile in SFX Now a TV writer as well as a journalist, Mark has impressive media contacts A fantastic new trilogy about the ongoing battle between light and dark, but with a new twist Popular with conventions and signing tours Distinctive new cover style for Chadbourn 'A sumptuous feast of fairytale, magic, dark gothic horror and romance' THE TIMES