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   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  starslight86 | Jul 20, 2021 |   H.P. Lovecraft fans may recognize this sentence as a description of his Cthulhu mythos. Not only does the author play homage to H.P. Lovecraft but he also recognizes the "Men-in-Black" and Matrix film series and film director Christopher Nolan's Inception. Harry Priest, former "biomedical remediation specialist", is recruited by his future partner, Havelock Graves, and the covert Interstitual Crime Department (ICD), when one of his routine crime scene cleanups turns out to involve the invasion of nightmarish creatures from parallel universes. Harry, a man who dreamed once of being a policeman, believes he is being recruited because of certain law enforcement skills, but Graves actually believe that he might just be the key to saving the existence of the multiverse as well as his job. The ICD has discovered a plot of a religious cult led by the fanatic Nyarlathotep to steal the Spear of Destiny, the lance believed to have pierced Jesus's side, and a crimson jewel, which they will use to awaken Cthulhu, which will destroy the multiverses. Graves hopes that Priest and the others in Department Zero, the lowest recesses of ICD where screw-ups find themselves assigned, will be able to stop Nyarlathotep, save the multiverses, and restore him to his former, more prestigious, position in the organization. The author, Paul Crilley, has repackaged themes from several popular cultural films into an entertaining paranormal suspenseful tale. The humorous banter between Harry and Graves and the never-ending action keeps the reader turning the pages making this book a quick read since one wants to see what lies on the next page. (  ) John_Warner | May 9, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
"Atticus Graves just wants to make sure his ex-wife doesn't take away his visitation rights. But when Graves stumbles through a portal, he finds himself in a world full of monsters and angels. There are thousands of these doors, thousands of different worlds. And now that he's seen them, Graves is recruited to Department Zero. Graves and his crew clean up any and all supernatural crime scenes. A secret society of Nazis from another reality, the Cult of Azathoth, have come to our world looking for the Spear of Destiny to bring back Azathoth and the Great Old Ones --among them Cthulhu Himself--from their prison in a timeless dimension. Graves and Department Zero must travel between realities to a Britain where it's always 1899, where Queen Victoria has ruled for 101 years. Here they will fight Nazi cultists with royal connections, demon-spawn mafia beneath the sewers of New York, and infiltrate the infamous Wewelsburg Castle in Germany. All in time to say goodnight to his daughter"--"In this adult debut, humor and adventure cross multiple worlds as a team of quirky losers keep alternate realities from taking over our own"-- No library descriptions found. |
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This one was messed up. Honestly if I had tried to read it now after being introduced to so many wonderful books, it probably would have ended up as a DNF. (