The Left Hand of God

The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogy. 
 
"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. 
 
The Left Hand of God is a must read. It is the first instalment in a gripping trilogy by Paul Hoffman. Imagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose. Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series. 
 
Praise for Paul Hoffman: 
'This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden 
'Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph 
'A cult classic . . .' Daily Express

Paul Hoffman is the author of three previous novels, The Last Four Things (2011), The Left Hand of God (2010), The Beating of His Wings (2013), The Golden Age of Censorship (2007), a black comedy based on his experiences as a film censor and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (2000), which predicted the collapse of the world financial system.

'Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary.' 
 
The Sanctuary of the Redeemers: vast, desolate, hopeless. Where children endure brutal cruelty and violence in the name of the One True Faith. 
 
Lost in the Sanctuary's huge maze of corridors is a boy: his age uncertain, his real name unknown. They call him Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming - and violent. But when he opens the wrong door at the wrong time he witnesses an act so horrible he must flee, or die. 
 
The Redeemers will go to any lengths to get Cale back. 
Not because of the secret he has discovered. 
But because of a more terrifying secret that lies undiscovered in himself.

The Last Four Things

The Last Four Things is the second in Paul Hoffman's remarkable series. 
 
Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell 
These are the Last Four Things 
Now there are Five 
Meet Thomas Cale 
 
Returning to the Sanctuary of the Redeemers, Thomas Cale is told by the Lord Militant that the destruction of mankind is necessary; the only way to undo God's greatest mistake. 
 
Cale seemingly accepts his role in the ending of the world: fate has painted him as the Left Hand of God, the Angel of Death. Absolute power is within his grasp, the terrifying zeal and military might of the Redeemers a weapon for him to handle as simply as he once used a knife. 
 
But perhaps not even the grim power that the Redeemers hold over Cale is enough - the boy who turns from love to poisonous hatred in a heartbeat, the boy who switches between kindness and sheer violence in the blink of an eye. The annihilation that the Redeemers seek may well be in Cale's hands - but his soul is far stranger than they could ever know. 
 
The Last Four Things follows on from The Left Hand of God. It is the second instalment in a gripping trilogy by Paul Hoffman. Imagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose. Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series. 
 
Praise for Paul Hoffman: 
'This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden 
'Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph 
'A cult classic . . .' Daily Express

'You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 
'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.' 
 
Return to the Sanctuary of the Redeemers. A place of pain, cruelty and terrible, dark devotion. Thomas Cale - the Left Hand of God, the Angel of Death - is put in charge of an army and groomed to bring about the end of the world. 
 
But might not Cale - killer, strategist, pawn and boy whose nature is far stranger than even the Redeemers can know - have his own reasons for bringing about the Last Four Things? 
 
DEATH JUDGEMENT HEAVEN HELL

The Beating of his Wings

The Beating of his Wings by Paul Hoffman is the final instalment in his epic Cale and the Sanctuary of Redeemers series. 
 
The Beating of his Wings is the third and final instalment in the epic Paul Hoffman trilogy following Cale and the Sanctuary of the Redeemers. Following The Left Hand of God and The Last Four Things, this climatic ending will bring this sensational narrative to a close, and finally the fate of the angel of death will be revealed. 
 
Imagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose. Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series. 
 
Praise for Paul Hoffman: 
'This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden 
'Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph 
'A cult classic . . .' Daily Express

Thomas Cale has been running from the truth - his brutal military training has been solely for the purpose of destroying humanity. Now the man who made him the Angel of Death: Pope Redeemer Bosco, is coming for him. 
 
Feared and revered by those created who him, Cale has used his talent for violence and destruction to destroy the most world's most powerful civilisations. 
 
As the day of reckoning draws close, Cale knows he must confront the person he hates most in the world but that would mean bringing about the end of humanity.

Paul Hoffman

Exhilaratingly engaging writing, imbued with zest and intelligence

Brooding and magnificent. Hoffman has created a terrifying world and fitted it with strange and complex characters

A riveting, powerful tale, with irresistible characters, humour and a brilliantly imagined world

The gripping adventure for fans of The Man in the High Castle

Thomas Cale has been running from his enemies. Believing him to be the incarnation of God's rage, the world's most violent religious sect trained him to destroy His greatest mistake. Mankind itself. 
 
But Cale has other ideas. 
 
Cale is a paradox: arrogant and innocent, generous and pitiless. Feared and revered by those that created him, he has already used his terrifying talent for violence and destruction to bring down the most powerful civilisation in the world. 
 
But having fled to America, Thomas Cale has been caught. He has been given a choice. Murder the American president - the father of that fragile democracy and the the best hope for ending slavery - or be handed over for execution himself. 
 
The survival of rule by the people and the right of millions not to be owned by others rests on Cale's decision.

Paul Hoffman

Praise for The White Devil

Praise for Paul Hoffman

Exhilaratingly engaging writing, imbued with zest and intelligence

Brooding and magnificent. Hoffman has created a terrifying world and fitted it with strange and complex characters

Praise for Paul Hoffman

Exhilaratingly engaging writing, imbued with zest and intelligence

Brooding and magnificent. Hoffman has created a terrifying world and fitted it with strange and complex characters

Praise for Paul Hoffman

Exhilaratingly engaging writing, imbued with zest and intelligence

Brooding and magnificent. Hoffman has created a terrifying world and fitted it with strange and complex characters

Books by Paul Hoffman

Series by Paul Hoffman

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