The Left Hand of God - signed proof

Hoffman, Paul

ISBN 10: 0718155181 / ISBN 13: 9780718155186

Published by Michael Joseph, 2010

About this Item

Signed by the author on the half-title page. Paperback proof copy, appears unread and as new [10C33abo].

Seller Inventory # ABE-1782482065758

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Left Hand of God - signed proof
• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718155181
• ISBN 13: 9780718155186
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 16.2W x 24H x 3.9D centimeters 16.2 centimeters width by 24 centimeters height by 3.9 centimeters depth
• Weight: 724 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

“Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary.”

The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place—a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose—to serve in the name of the One True Faith.

In one of the Sanctuary’s vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy. He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old—he is not sure and neither is anyone else. He has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him Thomas Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-minded. He is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or die.

His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt.

But the Redeemers want Cale back at any price... not because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does not.

About the Author

Paul Hoffman studied English at New College, Oxford before becoming a senior film censor at the British Board of Film Classification. He lives in the United Kingdom. The Left Hand of God is the first in trilogy following Cale.