Are there really forces of evil out there that have only destruction in mind? For example, in the story of Moses battling for the freedom of his people what was really going on between Moses and Amenhotep II or the Pharaoh? Was it two human beings vying for power or the power of God against the power of sorcery? What is happening in a story that opens with shades of Edgar Allen Poe in a living burial behind a cement wall?

James Byron Huggins has done it again, creating a pulsating, terror-filled thriller in which the reader furiously turns the pages while those forces come alive again to battle in the contemporary world! For the tomb of the sorcerer lies in the home of a retired police officer, Michael Thorn, who will need spiritual help to be free of this horrific nightmarish reality! Thorn gets a priest, a professor, and a strange group to help him in this battle, a unique touch given to the strange quality of each helper with Huggins' blood pressure raising language, "...cloaked in an atmosphere so meaningless and unobtrusive he could have carried a rocket launcher through the lobby of the White House without attracting any attention."

Exorcisms, mental plotting, etc cannot win against this consuming power! Huggins writes thrillers that practically leave the reader gasping for breath. You can't figure out what will happen and you aren't really sure it will work out for the hero! In this age of bigger and bigger thrills and bold, high-tech attacks, Huggins is a "Master."

Read it and then buy it for your friends! And make sure you have plenty of time to finish it as you won't want to put it down once you pick it up!

Reviewed by Viviane Crystal on November 18, 2006

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