Angel City

The Watchers and now Angel City … read like Paradise Lost redrafted by Raymond Chandler in a fevered dream, in which the demonic hordes are desperate to secure nuclear weaponry and the angels have the kind of firepower that Milton couldn’t have conjured up in his worst nightmares. It’s the old tale of good versus evil rewritten as a compelling modern fable.

Jon Steele is an award-winning journalist and author of the Angelus trilogy. He has travelled the world as a cameraman for ITN and, after a twenty-year career, wrote the critically acclaimed War Junkie, his memoir of a life behind the camera in some of the worst places on earth. 
He has also photographed, written, produced and directed a number of documentaries.

Jay Harper, one of the last 'angels' on Planet Earth, is hunting down the half-breeds and goons who infected Paradise with evil. Intercepting a plot to turn half of Paris into a dead zone, Harper ends up on the wrong side of the law and finds himself a wanted man. That doesn't stop his commander, Inspector Gobet of the Swiss Police, from sending him back to Paris on a recon mission... a mission that uncovers a truth buried in the Book of Enoch. 
 
Katherine Taylor and her two year old son Max are living in a small town in the American Northwest. It's a quiet life. She runs a candle shop and spends her afternoons drinking herbal teas, imagining a crooked little man in the belfry of Lausanne Cathedral, a man who believed Lausanne was a hideout for lost angels. And there was someone else, someone she can't quite remember...as if he was there, and not there at the same time. 
 
A man with a disfigured face emerges from the shadows. His name is Astruc, he's obsessed with the immortal souls of men. Like a voice crying in the wilderness, he warns the time of The Prophecy is at hand...a prophecy that calls for the sacrifice of the child born of light...

The Watchers

Three lives, one purpose. Save what's left of paradise before all hell breaks loose...

Powers along at an irresistible pace and is written with real panache and verve

A very fine, beautifully written, hypnotic tale... very special

A commodious and seductive cosmic thriller... Steele’s lavishly atmospheric, witty, bloody, and swashbuckling tale of age-old struggles for dominion between angels and demons is the propitious first book in an ambitious new series

Lausanne, Switzerland. 
 
In the cathedral tower lives a strange boy with a limp who talks to the bells. 
 
In a luxury penthouse lives a high-class prostitute who's in mortal danger. 
 
And in a low-rent hotel lives a private investigator who has no idea how he got there. 
 
Jay Harper finds himself in Switzerland on the trail of a missing Olympic athlete. A hard drinker, he can barely remember how he got home last night, let alone why he accepted this job. When he meets the stunning but aloof Katherine in a hotel bar, he quickly realises that he's not the only one in town who's for hire. She's a high-class hooker who can't believe her luck. Which is about to change. For the worse. 
 
In the meantime, Marc Rochat spends his time in the belfry talking to the statues, his cat and the occasional ghost. His job is to watch over Lausanne at night and to wait for the angel his mother told him he'd one day have to save. When he sees Katherine, he thinks his moment has come. Which indeed it has. But not in a good way...

War Junkie

An adrenalin-fuelled, white-knuckle ride through the worst places on earth...

'Burns with emotional honesty...Powerful and disturbing'

'The most authentic literary recreation of the hollow terror, confusion and soul-crushing cacophony of battle I have read in decades'

Jon Steele was born in the American Northwest and raised in Great Falls, Montana. He left home at the age of sixteen and worked in an assortment of legal and illegal jobs before joining Independent Television News of London in 1982. He established a reputation as one of the world's top cameramen in dangerous environments. He currently lives in Arab East Jerusalem where he continues to cover the Middle East for ITN. He lives with a stray cat named Killer.

Jon Steele is a war junkie. Soon after starting work as an ITN cameraman, he began to feel strangely at home in the kind of places ordinary people get evacuated from. Before long, he was living for the rush which comes as bullets fly past your head and bombs explode at your feet. Normal life just couldn't compete... 
 
In Georgia, Jon filmed on the last flight out of the besieged airport at Sokhumi, as the plane took off in the dead of night, all lights extinguished, going the wrong way down the runway, directly towards the nearby steep and virtually invisible mountain range while Abkhazian soldiers fired off random anti-aircraft shells in their general direction. 
In Moscow, he filmed in the midst of chaos as armed rebels and Militia fought bloodthirsty, hand-to-hand battles on the streets around him. 
In Rwanda, he filmed the horrific aftermath to the most brutal massacre of modern times - and his own neck got far too close to the edge of a machete for comfort. 
In Zaire, he filmed endless fields full of young children deranged by hunger and ravaged by cholera. 
In Bosnia, Jon realised that he had, in fact, seen and filmed more than he could cope with, and finally spiralled out of control, deep into emotional meltdown. 
 
But somehow War Junkie is also an incredibly funny and exhilarating book. The humour is dark but sharp as broken glass. The action comes so thick and fast you can forget to breathe. 
 
War Junkie is shocking, hilarious, deeply moving and, ultimately, it packs a powerful psychological punch. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about modern warfare as it shines an unforgiving spotlight into some of the darkest recesses of recent history.

Jon Steele

Steele's dexterity in weaving sharply drawn, memorable characters into a multilayered story line is breathtaking ... A thrilling conclusion.

Steele wraps up his apocalyptic Angelus trilogy with a bang.

It's a novel of jaw-dropping ambition and imagination.

An engrossing page burner with a very shocking ending.

The thrilling final instalment in Jon Steele's epic Angelus trilogy. 
 
Former escort Katherine Taylor has survived an attack on her home, but she wakes with no recollection of the events and no memory of her son Max, who is nowhere to be found. 
 
Meanwhile, Detective Jay Harper is once again at Lausanne Cathedral, where he is following a new directive from his immortal, heavenly central command: find both Katherine Taylor and Max to prevent the eradication of all trace of goodness from the world at midnight. 
 
Combining elements of science, religion and fantasy, in an epic showdown between the protectors of paradise - the eternal angels - and the 'goons' of timeless evil, The Way of Sorrows is the electrifying conclusion of Steele's unforgettable, action-packed Angelus trilogy. 
 
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Praise for Jon Steele and the Angelus trilogy: 
 
'Pretty damn good' SFX 
 
'[The Angleus trilogy]… reads like Paradise Lost redrafted by Raymond Chandler in a fevered dream, in which the demonic hordes are desperate to secure nuclear weaponry and the angels have the kind of firepower that Milton couldn’t have conjured up in his worst nightmares. It’s the old tale of good versus evil rewritten as a compelling modern fable.' Irish Times

Jon Steele

Praise for The Way of Sorrows

Steele's dexterity in weaving sharply drawn, memorable characters into a multilayered story line is breathtaking ... A thrilling conclusion.

Steele wraps up his apocalyptic Angelus trilogy with a bang.

It's a novel of jaw-dropping ambition and imagination.

Steele's dexterity in weaving sharply drawn, memorable characters into a multilayered story line is breathtaking ... A thrilling conclusion.

Steele wraps up his apocalyptic Angelus trilogy with a bang.

It's a novel of jaw-dropping ambition and imagination.

Steele's dexterity in weaving sharply drawn, memorable characters into a multilayered story line is breathtaking ... A thrilling conclusion.

Steele wraps up his apocalyptic Angelus trilogy with a bang.

It's a novel of jaw-dropping ambition and imagination.

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