The Crippled Angel: Book Three of 'The Crucible'
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ISBN: 0765342847 / Publisher: Tor Fantasy, August 2006
With the familiar world beginning to crumble around him, the church losing its power, humankind questioning the nature of religion, and demons escaping into the present through a rift, Thomas Neville undertakes a dangerous mission on behalf of the archangel Michael to uncover the demons living in human form. By the author of The Nameless Day and The Wounded Hawk. Reprint.
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The world that the former monk Thomas Neville knows is crumbling about him. The Holy Mother Church of Rome is losing its power over men and Thomas knows that this is not Man’s doing but the work of the demons who have escaped their earthly prison and who are trying to breach the very gates of heaven.The great archangel Michael has given Thomas the task to find the demons who now dwell in human form and expose their evil natures. To do this Thomas turns on one set of vows and return to his once lofty noble connections. He encounters old friends, a new love, and temptations that will try his conscience. And his very soul.For Thomas is beginning to think that all that he knows may not be true. Faced with mortal love and friendships that he desperately wants and fears, he knows that time is growing short. And the choice that he makes will reshape the world.
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