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    What I Tell You in the Dark: A Novel
    What I Tell You in the Dark: A Novel
    What I Tell You in the Dark: A Novel
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    What I Tell You in the Dark: A Novel

    By John Samuel

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    This debut thriller of angels, demons, and corporate espionage is “part fantasy, part gripping depiction of delusional madness . . . Take the plunge” (Vanity Fair).
     
    A nameless angel has been out of God’s favor since things went wrong with his last mission, two thousand years ago. He has spent the intervening millennia watching humanity fall into moral disrepair. Lately, he’s been watching Will, a London businessman attempting to expose his company’s dark dealings to the press. But Will’s campaign is not going well.
     
    In a moment of weakness and bravado, the angel decides to spiritually take Will over—“jumping in” as he did with Jesus of Nazareth. But as the angel comes up against demonic forces fighting to maintain the status quo, Will increasingly loses his grip on himself. Is he truly caught in a cosmic struggle of good versus evil . . . or merely a delusional man crushed by the hypocrisies of modern society?
     
    Powerfully written, fast-paced, and perfect for fans of Chuck Palahniuk, Joe Hill, and Bret Easton Ellis, What I Tell You in the Dark is an unsettling story of omnipotence, mayhem, capitalism, and corruption.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 5, 2016
    ISBN9781468313208
    What I Tell You in the Dark: A Novel
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    John Samuel

    I am an 85 year old grandmother and great grandmother. The stories I write in my books are stories I have told to my grandchildren and now to my great grandchildren. I also told these stories to the children in my youth ministry at church.

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      From the point of view of an ambitious, if stumbling, angel, this is one of those books you'll want to sink into, consider, re-read, and pass on to other readers. Samuel's lyrical writing is so full of both heart and humor that the work is nearly impossible to put down. If there's a fault, it's that the telling and the voice are so hypnotic, and at times so poetic, that it's easy to slip along and be so swept up in many moments that the larger picture can be temporarily lost. But then, re-wandering through this angel's voice is sort of a game in itself, and a rather wonderful one.All told, I rather fell in love with this book, and I can't wait to re-read it, and to see what Samuel comes up with next. Readers who want a bit of the supernatural or the wayward angelic in their literary fiction... find this book.I adored it, start to finish.

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