Liam Michaels isn't just a wealthy art dealer and photographer. He is actually Azrael, the angel of death, an immortal sentinel created thousands of years ago before the dawn of man for the purpose of finding and destroying true evil.

Azrael and his Core, a group of highly trained commandos, have just squashed attempted attacks on New York and Chicago by terrorists wielding neutron bombs. In the process, they discovered who was behind the threat: the Ba, an ancient warrior people controlled by a demon-the demon Azrael has been battling for more than three thousand years. Now the fight is about to come to a climax as Azrael and his team pursue the demon across the United States and Europe in a desperate effort to prevent a global nuclear holocaust.

While this high-tech thriller rides the borders of the imagination and tangles with the unthinkable, the futuristic weaponry and advanced military systems employed by Azrael and his commandos arise from technologies that actually exist today in prototype form. In this chilling tale of terrorism, Azrael and the Core must utilize their most daring maneuvers, ingenious countertactics, and flat-out heroics in a brutal battle over the fate of the world.

They live among us, the products of a Nazi genetic engineering program, gifted in intelligence, unmatched in physical skills-peerless in the art of killing. During the past seventy-five years they gained controlling interests in banking, news services, military technology, and internet information intelligence, forming a global conglomerate whose name is a death sentence to those who speak it. When Etienne de Villaine, an angelic guardian, stumbles upon a renegade former member of the organization, he learns of a Machiavellian plot to overthrow the United States government. As thousands die from a bioweapon unleashed on Chicago and Orlando and a nerve gas attack on a Los Angeles Mall, Etienne must race the clock to destroy an organization known as the Magnorum and its bloodthirsty members-the Optomorphs.

Death goes by many names, but one of them is Etienne de Villaine. As an angelic vigilante, Etienne is tasked with hunting and eliminating demons, fallen angels, and mortal scum who escape justice. But when an assassin murders the leaders of Israel, Iran, Turkmenistan, the Ukraine, and North Korea, the world teeters on the brink of Armageddon and Etienne must shift from heavenly vigilante to savior. The assassin is evil incarnate and seeks to create disorder, destruction, and the termination of mankind. As the titanic struggle commences, Etienne becomes locked in a fierce heaven and earth death duel with a being who is not only his equal-he's his brother, and the fate of mankind rests on the outcome.

Nothing ruins a lazy summer afternoon faster than the screams of a young girl. Liam Michaels, an earthbound archangel, and his partner Dani Suskin, an angelic warrior, see their day go to hell in a handbasket when they stumble on a sex trafficking ring. The day continues to spiral downward when the head of one of the captured traffickers explodes during questioning, a sure sign that the evil behind this ring is not human, and as Liam and Dani follow its trail through Rome, Bangkok, Mumbai, and Katmandu, they discover a deadly enemy unlike any they have ever faced. But Liam faces an even greater enemy-himself. As they plunge deeper into the heinous world of slavery and human exploitation controlled by a global crime organization, death touches the lives of his friends, and Liam must fight a two-front battle as he walks the fine line of a fall from grace.

A leading U.S. biodefense scientist dies of an unexplainable neurological disease. Cocaine is being shipped to a Swiss chocolate factory guarded by combat troops. Chechnya is destroyed after an outbreak of a bioterrorist virus. And a beautiful, but enigmatic biotech CEO fights off a take-over attempt by a sinister Boston investment group. Unrelated as these events seem, Liam Michaels, artist, photographer-and the immortal Angel of Death-recognizes an insidious plot by fallen angels to take over a country, long the nemesis of the United States. Liam must act quickly to stop the rise of the Fallen.

After the leaders of Russia are rebuffed in their efforts to become the sole supplier of gas and oil to Europe, a whooping cough epidemic breaks out in the Netherlands. Healthcare workers move to treat the illness with antibiotics, but those treated develop a deadly viral hemorrhagic fever while untreated patients survive. In the U.S., Iranian suicide bombers attack San Francisco and Chicago killing dozens and in an act of apparent retaliation, three of Iran's oil production facilities and their main nuclear processing plant are destroyed by nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. When wing fuel tanks with U.S. markings are found at the Iran-Turkish border, the stage is set for a massive confrontation between the U.S. and Iran. Unrelated as they seem, a common thread weaves through these events, and with the world about to explode, Liam Michaels-artist, photographer, and the immortal Angel of Death-must unravel the puzzle and stop those responsible before the humankind is torn to pieces.

Liam Michaels isn't just a wealthy art dealer and photographer. He is actually Azrael, the angel of death, an immortal sentinel created thousands of years ago before the dawn of man for the purpose of finding and destroying true evil.

Azrael and his Core, a group of highly trained commandos, have just squashed attempted attacks on New York and Chicago by terrorists wielding neutron bombs. In the process, they discovered who was behind the threat: the Ba, an ancient warrior people controlled by a demon-the demon Azrael has been battling for more than three thousand years. Now the fight is about to come to a climax as Azrael and his team pursue the demon across the United States and Europe in a desperate effort to prevent a global nuclear holocaust.

While this high-tech thriller rides the borders of the imagination and tangles with the unthinkable, the futuristic weaponry and advanced military systems employed by Azrael and his commandos arise from technologies that actually exist today in prototype form. In this chilling tale of terrorism, Azrael and the Core must utilize their most daring maneuvers, ingenious countertactics, and flat-out heroics in a brutal battle over the fate of the world.