Reckoning
by James Byron Huggins
After they left him dying and alone in the Valley of Meggido, Gage turned his back on war. He turned his back on the world and gave his heart to the force that he felt saved him in that terrible darkness when his only hope lay in a power that he sensed was surely somewhere beyond the stars … Once Gage was the strongest, the most cunning, the most savage of his kind. He was the perfect weapon – a man who killed like lightning and utterly without mercy or hesitation or remorse. But that was the world he left behind in that cursed and demonic graveyard in Megiddo. Now Gage lives for a new purpose – and a new life. Only the murder of the priest who found him dying and mercifully nursed him back to health, but was murdered because of that very act of mercy, can force Gage to once again pick up his weapons. Now Gage faces a secret society protected by a team of six perfect assassins who have never known defeat – a group known as ‘The Sixth Order’ who have joined together to find an ancient book that contains ‘The Name of the Beast.’ To avenge the life of the man who saved him, Gage chooses to find the manuscript and destroy it before The Sixth Order can use it to decimate the Earth. But he must face each deadly killer and defeat them in combat during a haunting quest that takes him from the shadowed streets of New York to the Italian Alps to the coliseum that stands in the very shadow of The Vatican where an even more ancient and terrible secret lies buried … waiting to be discovered. It is a fight that will take Gage to the edge of all he can endure, a fight that will take him to the limit of what he has ever imagined about Destiny or Man or God, a fight that will force him to become far more savage and cunning than he has ever been if he is to defeat what has never been defeated. And if Gage does not defeat them … The Beast will rise from the sea …