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Peacekeeper
In a cave somewhere in the English countryside, the Chairman opens a mysterious jar, performs an ancient ritual, and creates new servants for a dark cause.
In an underground bunker not far away, an American airman guards the Peacekeeper, an aging weapon that could yet annihilate virtually every person on the globe.
And in a fashionable flat in Exeter, Detective Inspector Cecilia Cavaliere investigates a grisly murder staged to look like a robbery gone bad.
When Cecilia notices a connection between the murdered man and the Academy for Philosophical Studies, her suspicions are aroused. The last time she encountered the group, they were trying to destroy the planet. What could they be after now? And why would they target a harmless teacher of English?
Practical, courageous Cecilia will once again turn to her friend Anglican priest Michael Aarons to help her navigate a battle being fought for the soul of humanity as the Chairman's new recruits break into the bunker to seize and deploy the Peacekeeper.
In an underground bunker not far away, an American airman guards the Peacekeeper, an aging weapon that could yet annihilate virtually every person on the globe.
And in a fashionable flat in Exeter, Detective Inspector Cecilia Cavaliere investigates a grisly murder staged to look like a robbery gone bad.
When Cecilia notices a connection between the murdered man and the Academy for Philosophical Studies, her suspicions are aroused. The last time she encountered the group, they were trying to destroy the planet. What could they be after now? And why would they target a harmless teacher of English?
Practical, courageous Cecilia will once again turn to her friend Anglican priest Michael Aarons to help her navigate a battle being fought for the soul of humanity as the Chairman's new recruits break into the bunker to seize and deploy the Peacekeeper.
328 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 25, 2013
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August 31, 2015
Christopher Bryan, Peacekeeper: A Novel (Sewanee, TN: Diamond, 2013). Paperback | Kindle
Peacekeeper is a supernatural thriller, and like all such thrillers requires a willing suspension of disbelief. If golems, demons, apparitions, the music of the spheres, and an imminent apocalypse aren’t your cup of fictional tea, don’t read this book. You won’t like it.
If, on the other hand, you’re a fan of C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce and That Hideous Strength, by all means, take a look. Peacekeeper draws inspiration from those books (and others) and tells an interesting tale about a diabolical plot to launch World War III and the people who try to stop it. It is the second volume of a trilogy that follows the police work of Detective Inspector Cecilia Cavaliere.
My general rule of thumb for evaluating popular fiction is simple: Was it written so well that I kept turning pages? By that rule, Peacekeeper mostly succeeded. Unfortunately, Chapter Nine introduced a supernatural element into this thriller at too early a point in the novel. Supernatural thrillers work by slowly uncovering the super in an otherwise natural setting. Given that the novel has eighty-one chapters, Chapter Nine’s “reveal” came way too soon.
But I still turned the pages…
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P.S. If you found my review helpful, please vote “Yes” on my Amazon.com review page.
Peacekeeper is a supernatural thriller, and like all such thrillers requires a willing suspension of disbelief. If golems, demons, apparitions, the music of the spheres, and an imminent apocalypse aren’t your cup of fictional tea, don’t read this book. You won’t like it.
If, on the other hand, you’re a fan of C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce and That Hideous Strength, by all means, take a look. Peacekeeper draws inspiration from those books (and others) and tells an interesting tale about a diabolical plot to launch World War III and the people who try to stop it. It is the second volume of a trilogy that follows the police work of Detective Inspector Cecilia Cavaliere.
My general rule of thumb for evaluating popular fiction is simple: Was it written so well that I kept turning pages? By that rule, Peacekeeper mostly succeeded. Unfortunately, Chapter Nine introduced a supernatural element into this thriller at too early a point in the novel. Supernatural thrillers work by slowly uncovering the super in an otherwise natural setting. Given that the novel has eighty-one chapters, Chapter Nine’s “reveal” came way too soon.
But I still turned the pages…
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P.S. If you found my review helpful, please vote “Yes” on my Amazon.com review page.
January 5, 2014
Christopher Bryan has given us what is, I hope, only the second book that features Detective Inspector Cecilia Anna Maria Cavaliere and Father Michael Aarons. A theological thriller (my mother's term) like those of Charles Williams, The Peacekeeper rings true in its description of evil and of the power of love.
January 14, 2016
Excellent followup to Siding Star
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