Only one man can save the universe from carnage when the Darkest One gains control of the world and the wizards of the Order become helpless before his unspeakable powers. The Order is in chaos as good wizards are killed off by somebody summoning demons and sides are drawn between the more "traditional" factions and the newer more liberal groups. In the middle of all of this is the coming trail of Essaj, the miracle worker who doesn't seem to be doing magic at all, what he's doing is beyond that.
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Mark E. Rogers was an American author and illustrator. Rogers, while a student at Pt. Pleasant Beach High School, wrote a short novel, The Runestone, which has since been adapted into Willard Carroll's 1990 film starring Peter Riegert and Joan Severance, although it remains unpublished, except as a numbered, signed limited edition chapbook published by Burning Bush Press in 1979. At the University of Delaware, he continued his interest in writing, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. He was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
He thereafter became a professional writer. His published works include the Samurai Cat series; a number of novels, The Dead, Zorachus, and the latter's sequel, The Nightmare of God; a series of books known as Blood of the Lamb; and another series called The Nightmare of God. He has also published three art portfolios and a collection of his pin-up paintings, Nothing but a Smile.
Rogers often had heart problems, he died from apparent heart failure while hiking with his family in California's Death Valley.
The Blood of the Lamb is Mark E. Rogers' best stuff, and The Riddled Man is his single best book. First-class heroic fantasy, theologically literate, and absolutely ferocious. Just when you think you've figured out the whole retelling of the life of Christ thing, the story goes off onto a very dark siding. Just amazing.