The Shadow of the Soul: The Forgotten Gods: Book Two

by Sarah Pinborough

Overview

The author of the “diabolically clever”* A Matter of Blood returns with another gritty supernatural thriller featuring hard-boiled homicide detective Cass Jones…

A devastating terrorist attack has crippled London. To find a perpetrator who is more than human, Special Branch turns to Detective Inspector Cass Jones.

Cass is already investigating a series of student suicides, but saying no to Special Branch isn’t an option—even when he’s hit with a much more personal and deeply disturbing mystery: a message left for him by his murdered brother revealing that Cass’s nephew was stolen at birth.

Cass’s investigations and his search for the boy lead him down a dark labyrinth to the shadowy Mr. Bright and his otherworldly allies—and into the middle of an ancient and deadly feud, with no less than the fate of humanity hanging in the balance…

*F. Paul Wilson

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425258484
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/06/2013
Series:	The Forgotten Gods Trilogy , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sarah Pinborough is a British author of dark fantasy, horror, thrillers, and young adult. She lives in London.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for The Forgotten Gods trilogy:

“A pitch-black thriller with a fierce emotional payload—gritty, authentic and compelling.”—Michael Marshall, New York Times bestselling author of Killer Move

“Gritty and twisty…It grins as it lures you into reality’s unsettled corners.” —F. Paul Wilson

“Few writers blend mystery and the supernatural as well as Sarah Pinborough, but there are none who do it better. Quite, quite brilliant.” —John Connolly, #1 international bestselling author of The Wrath of Angels

"Pinborough's fiction moves at a breakneck pace. Once you start, you can't stop. More importantly, her stories have resonance. She understands how people tick. I always trust the ride, because I know I'll wind up someplace good." —Sarah Langan, author of The Keeper

Editorial Reviews

Following on the heels of A Matter of Blood, this familiar mix of shadowy cabals and brutal violence sees London struck by a series of terrorist attacks. Authorities are perplexed when the perpetrator appears to be a single individual not bound by the usual limits of space and time. At the same time, DI Cass Jones struggles to deal with a plague of suicides, all of whom died uttering the same cryptic phrase: “Chaos in the darkness.” Cass knows what few others do: the world is run by a vast occult conspiracy and the current events are only the latest moves in a long game. Abigail Porter’s sister is one of the suicides; Abigail is a government functionary near the center of the efforts to manage the aftermath of the attacks, and she personifies the intersection of national security interests with the personal tragedies of young lives cut short. Pinborough’s prose and characters are engaging and the novel is interesting despite its occasional predictability. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Forgotten Gods trilogy:

“A pitch-black thriller with a fierce emotional payload—gritty, authentic and compelling.”—Michael Marshall, New York Times bestselling author of Killer Move

“Gritty and twisty…It grins as it lures you into reality’s unsettled corners.” —F. Paul Wilson

“Few writers blend mystery and the supernatural as well as Sarah Pinborough, but there are none who do it better. Quite, quite brilliant.” —John Connolly, #1 international bestselling author of The Wrath of Angels

"Pinborough's fiction moves at a breakneck pace. Once you start, you can't stop. More importantly, her stories have resonance. She understands how people tick. I always trust the ride, because I know I'll wind up someplace good." —Sarah Langan, author of The Keeper

From the Publisher