Bøger af Michael Hesse

When you're a witch, you're always guilty!Ever since Thorn escaped the witch camps in Colorado, trouble's been running him down like road kill. Even his parole to the counter-sorcery unit, Shadow Company, hasn't earned him a reprieve.Arrested after a barroom brawl, Thorn and his partner Ramirez, find themselves the newest residents of Fulton County Jail's isolation ward. Just down the hall is Juan Ortiz, a courier supplying the new blood-magic drug, Graveyard Dust. All they have to do is get to Ortiz, discover his connections and get out. It's the easiest assignment they've had in months.But when Ortiz is murdered by magic, Thorn and Ramirez are the only suspects. Hounded by the Office of State Security and hunted by the terrifying Saint of Death, the Santa Muerte, Thorn is plunged into a conspiracy between sinister drug lords and members of the same government he fights to protect.

Black magic is a disease. Shadow Company is the cure.Thorn was lucky or so he was told. Most witches caught outside the internment camps end up doing hard time. Some just disappear. When the Office of State Security offered Thorn a choice between a trial for black magic or parole to America's counter-sorcery force, he jumped at the chance. Ten years in a Shadow Company uniform sounded like a better gig than life behind bars. But things aren't always as simple as they appear.For seventy years, America has fought a magical cold war against the Thule sorcerers of the European Reich. But things are heating up again...Everything changes when Thorn's unit is sent to Mosul to eliminate Alarwi; a terrorist who throws spells like roadside bombs. In the bones of the ancient city, Thorn uncovers a Thule plot to release the Quarternary of the Attitude. If these demon princes break free, they'll bring more than beer and pretzels to the party. They'll bring Hell itself to earth.While in pursuit of the architects behind the plot, clues surface indicating that Thorn's tangled past is somehow involved. In order to clear his name and stop the Thule, Thorn will be forced to betray his unit and confront his past. But how can anyone hope to stop a prince of Hell?

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