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The Warlock
There is nothing as terrifying as horror on a bright sunny day. It is out of place. It is unimaginable. Evil is alive and well. Demons exist. I know, for I have seen them. I have fought them and they are very real.
I had taken a sabbatical at a monastery on a Greek island; and what had started as a holiday, a temporary retreat from the harsh realities of business life, to cleanse the poisonous detritus of city living from my soul, evolved into a nightmare I shall never forget, and I will never be the same again, for the impossible happened, and those things which normal, sane people take to be no more than fantasies, or at worst the sick imaginings of psychotic minds, actually occurred.
I was warned by the abbot, but it seemed so unlikely, the product of an overactive imagination that I didn’t take his warning seriously and half a dozen men and women; good, evil and plain misguided are dead because of it.
The entity, the frightful fiend that was loosed, was no delusion of a sick mind, but a monstrosity summoned from the depths of hell by a psychotic madman and black magician who has been taken into the darkness he sought to control; and if there is justice he will suffer for eternity.
I had taken a sabbatical at a monastery on a Greek island; and what had started as a holiday, a temporary retreat from the harsh realities of business life, to cleanse the poisonous detritus of city living from my soul, evolved into a nightmare I shall never forget, and I will never be the same again, for the impossible happened, and those things which normal, sane people take to be no more than fantasies, or at worst the sick imaginings of psychotic minds, actually occurred.
I was warned by the abbot, but it seemed so unlikely, the product of an overactive imagination that I didn’t take his warning seriously and half a dozen men and women; good, evil and plain misguided are dead because of it.
The entity, the frightful fiend that was loosed, was no delusion of a sick mind, but a monstrosity summoned from the depths of hell by a psychotic madman and black magician who has been taken into the darkness he sought to control; and if there is justice he will suffer for eternity.
296 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 29, 2012
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November 19, 2012
The Warlock by Nicholas Boving is the 1st book of his that I have read. I will be reading others. The Warlock is a story of good vs. evil, light vs. dark, Christianity vs. the occult.
Alan is an ad executive who has had it and walk out on his partner and business. He ends up staying in an Abbey to "find" himself. There he develops a deep friendship with Brother Evangelos. Also on the island is a Marat who is dying of cancer and needs perform a satanic ritual to "cure" himself.
Brother Evangelos aids Alan in this fight of good vs. evil.
Well written and the characters are well developed.
Highly recommend.
Alan is an ad executive who has had it and walk out on his partner and business. He ends up staying in an Abbey to "find" himself. There he develops a deep friendship with Brother Evangelos. Also on the island is a Marat who is dying of cancer and needs perform a satanic ritual to "cure" himself.
Brother Evangelos aids Alan in this fight of good vs. evil.
Well written and the characters are well developed.
Highly recommend.
June 1, 2016
The title of this book I found initially unsuited; this is after all a contemporary setting with modern day people – where does Warlock fit into it? Oh, it does! Although it should be ‘Warlocks’ plural, in my opinion, for there are definitely two powers facing each other in this.
From England to Greece and back and back, this is brilliantly told and absolutely intriguing. A burnt out exec goes to an abbey in Greece on the advice of a priest, but he finds something extreme and dark there, and needs to find himself and step up quickly in order to survive.
Well told. Excellent stuff!
From England to Greece and back and back, this is brilliantly told and absolutely intriguing. A burnt out exec goes to an abbey in Greece on the advice of a priest, but he finds something extreme and dark there, and needs to find himself and step up quickly in order to survive.
Well told. Excellent stuff!
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