Race The Darkness

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More than once the young Irish monk Thomas learned the hard way that St. Brendan’s loyalties were for sale to the highest bidders. It happened in the Toltec jungles of the hot southern lands as Brendan’s spirit crumbled from addiction to the coca leaves, again in the lands of the Chin, on the Silk Roads of the Middle East, and in the new Christian empire of Rome. Thomas was determined history would not repeat itself.

I had avoided being the instrument of Mad Brendan’s demise on our journeys around the world of this sixth century after the death of Christ…usually against the protests of my beloved friend and fellow traveler Brosius. So far, I have never regretted letting Brendan live. Now everything I had striven for in my life stood balanced on the actions I would shortly take. My Filid-Spirit ancestors encouraged me to move swiftly against both Brendan and the evil Roman Cardinal Barozia.

I would use their shrewd talents in my final blow for freedom from the coming intellectual darkness. But I would determine my victims and my timing.

Find Mr. Hoffman’s first three novels in this series, Beyond Crystal Castles, Resurrection of a Demon and Dragons in Silk at empiresforthetaking.com.

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