After the conflagration of the thired war world breaks the bonds of reality, ten brutal and psychologically damaged men set out on horseback into a wilderness of inexplicable natural phenomena, their task to salvage from abandoned homes and libraries the old books thought necedssary to stabilize an embryonic culture. Thus begins a haunting epic of light an dark.Filled with unpredictable philosophical, psychological and physical horror, it delivers a shadowy nightmare of the mind in which the hidden powers of the new and ancient world--heaven, hell, angels, and demons--assume at least a momentary and literal existence. With poetic skill, Arthur leads the reader into a dreamlike world where nothing is what it seems; and where a single thought can change the world.