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

The White Devil

The Left Hand of God

The Beating of his Wings

The Last Four Things

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'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 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

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.

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