A Scream of Angels
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The Dead Sea. A fossilized skeleton seven feet tall with a wingspan twice that. Professor Marcus Vargas smuggles it out of the dig site and disappears into the New Mexico desert. Six months later, he's a blood-soaked Jesuit priest raving about demons.
A pulse-pounding supernatural military thriller where elite Templar warriors face something that was never meant to walk the earth again.
Cade Williams and Echo Team are pulled from a prison operation to investigate Eden—Vargas's secret research facility. A squad from 3rd Platoon went in. One man came back. The helmet cam footage shows a shadow enveloping a fully armed knight and taking him screaming into oblivion.
Mission: infiltrate Eden and eliminate any supernatural presence that remains.
The facility sits in an isolated valley, surrounded by thunderclouds that radar can't detect. When Cade's helicopter gets too close, lightning shreds the tail rotor. As he stumbles from the wreckage, he glimpses a massive face in the clouds—leering, full of ancient malice.
Something knows they're coming.
Inside Eden, Echo Team discovers the truth: Vargas wasn't running archaeology. He was attempting to clone an angel from fossilized remains.
And he succeeded.
The thing walking Eden's corridors wears many faces. Sometimes it's shadow. Sometimes it's a knight in Templar armor, speaking with Cade's voice. Sometimes it's something with wings and talons and a smile containing every horror humanity has known. It can possess the living, reanimate the dead, and be everywhere at once.
It calls itself Baraquel. It claims to be a messenger of God.
But Cade knows what happens when angels fall.
The mission devolves into nightmare. Close-quarters combat where your squadmate might be possessed. Mirrors become gateways. Master Sergeant Riley faces an imposter wearing his commander's face. Sergeant Malone's combat drone gets torn apart. Lieutenant Duncan discovers his healing gift carries a price when casualties mount.
In the deepest level, Cade finds Vargas's laboratory—the fossil chamber, the cloning vats. There he faces Baraquel himself.
The fallen angel offers Cade a choice: dominion, power, territory—in exchange for betrayal. The same temptation since the Garden.
Cade's answer comes in bullets and blessed steel.
Baraquel wields blue witchfire that shatters walls, the ability to freeze men with a gesture, wings that deflect bullets. But Cade didn't survive five years hunting the Adversary by playing fair.
The facility becomes a war zone. Ancient wards crack. And somewhere in the chaos, Cade might learn a clue to where the Adversary is hiding.
But first he has to survive. First Echo Team has to stop something that shouldn't exist.
In the darkness beneath Eden, Cade discovers that some battles can't be won with bullets alone. That heaven itself is watching his war. That Eden wasn't just a rogue experiment—it was a test.
And he has no idea if he's passed or failed.
Perfect for fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim, and military supernatural thrillers where elite warriors face cosmic horrors.
What readers are saying:
"A Scream of Angels takes everything terrifying about the first book and dials it up to eleven. Echo Team isn't fighting demons anymore—they're fighting something that makes demons look tame."
"Vargas cloned an angel. AN ANGEL. The audacity of that premise makes this one of the most ambitious supernatural thrillers I've read."
"This is what happens when military thrillers meet biblical horror. Brilliant and brutal."
New York Times and USA Today bestseller Joseph Nassise continues his Templar Chronicles series with a terrifying tale of hubris, horror, and humanity's war against enemies that were never meant to walk the earth again.
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About the author
Joseph Nassise is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than a sixty novels, including the Templar Chronicles series, the Jeremiah Hunt trilogy, and the Great Undead War series. He is a former president of the Horror Writers Association, the world's largest organization of professional horror writers, and a multiple Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award nominee.
