The Sanguine Echo

A Supernatural Thriller

De: K.R.M. Morgan

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A RENEGADE PRIEST. A POSSESSED MERCEDES. AND A TOWN THAT BLEEDS IRON.

Father Thomas O’Neill is the Vatican’s Chief Exorcist, but he doesn’t carry holy water. He carries a Glock loaded with rock salt, smokes Turkish Royals to hide the scent of sulfur, and drives The Deliverance—a 1979 Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 that runs on high-octane petrol and the Wrath of God.

Thomas is used to demons. He shares his own headspace with one: Hanbi, the sarcastic Sumerian King of Wind Demons, who offers tactical advice between insults.

But when a frantic Bishop calls from the Carpathian Mountains, Thomas finds something that isn’t in the standard exorcism manual.

The town of Brakov is dying. Young men are fading away, their blood turning to water. Their grieving mothers are visited at night by the dead, who don't want to drink blood—they want to share warmth.

Thomas thinks it’s a vampire infestation. He’s wrong.

Deep beneath the earth, an ancient engine has woken up. It isn’t feeding on life; it is mining it. A forgotten industrial deity is filtering the iron from the blood of the living to build itself a body of rust and ruin. The dead aren’t monsters; they are drones. And the townspeople aren’t victims; they are fuel.

Now, Thomas must drive The Deliverance into the belly of the mountain, where the laws of physics are optional and the only way to kill a god made of metal is to drive a two-ton German siege engine straight through its heart.

He has a shotgun. He has a sixty-pound ginger battle-cat named Ezekiel. And he has a full tank of gas.

It’s time to teach the old gods a new lesson in horsepower.

"John Wick meets The Exorcist in a 1979 Mercedes."

From the author of THE CRIMSON SOLSTICE and THE BONES OF THE MOTHER comes a new high-velocity supernatural thriller that reinvents the vampire myth with diesel, demons, and dark humor.