Synopsis: From the back cover of the Ace first edition: ""He will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces..." Revelation 2:27 Great Britain's King Edward is dead - murdered by order of his stepmother, the queen, so her son Ethelred an assume the throne. Under the tutelage of the mysterious Angelo, the young monarch's rule plunges England into chaos for over twenty years... "They will have a king ruling over them, who is the angel in charge of the abyss..." Revelation 9:11 At the dawn of a new millennium, the forces of darkness begin to gather. In his guise as Angelo, Satan has guided England into despair and ruin. Now, with the aid of the Norse god Loki, he will procure the seven signs prophesied in Revelation to usher in the Apocalypse and create Hell on Earth... "And I will give power unto my two witnesses..." Revelation 11:3 But Revelation also prophesies the appearance of two witnesses who will stand against the Antichrist. One is a crippled monk named Alwyn, the other is a Scottish witch-wife named Kennag. They possess magic from both Heaven and Earth that will enable them to battle the end of the world... A.D. 999"