About This Book
For millennia, you have been lied to. Living under the alias Don Occam, the demigod Orpheus has been portrayed in mythology as a lacksidsical and frivolous poet and musician, weak of will, slandered by bards and storytellers.This defamation is the mildest of the many torments lavished on the ancient warrior-poet by Dionysus, Orpheus's estranged patron god-And that torture lingers even today, thirty-six-hundred years later. Cursed to walk the earth for eternity, Orpheus resides in modern-day Seattle with his only companion, Tragedy Incarnate.Trapped in the world of the living and plagued by perpetual grief over the separation from his beloved Eurydice, Orpheus is determined to end his suffering and rejoin her. But someone has other plans for Orpheus. NeoNazis, Russian Spies, Cambridge University Math Professors, and a young woman who is the mirror image of his deceased love are merely pawns in a game in which Orpheus doesn't even know he is a player-one designed solely to torture him.Are three and a half thousand years of experience enough to thwart a cruel god? Will Orpheus ever rejoin his true love, the other half of his soul?Knife fights, car chases, battles with gods, captures, torture, escapes, and a final epic confrontation make this story an imaginative and compelling twist on the espionage and urban fantasy genres, and in a blockbuster return to the page are Shelton's exquisite talents for building deeply engaging characters, shocking twists, and pulsating, well-choreographed fight scenes that made his previous series such a success.A must read.
