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    Of Popes and Pentagrams
    Of Popes and Pentagrams
    Of Popes and Pentagrams
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    Of Popes and Pentagrams

    By Adam Ingle

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    Mestoph and Leviticus are the oddest pair of friends in the Afterlife. One is a Demon, the other is an Angel, and wherever they go chaos isn't far behind. Follow the duo as they become embroiled in a conspiracy to kill the Pope in 13th century Italy at the behest of the enigmatic Hermes Trismegistus and his influential cult. Live or die, history won't be the same.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdam Ingle
    Release dateDec 10, 2014
    ISBN9781310083723
    Of Popes and Pentagrams
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    Adam Ingle

    Adam Ingle a basement-dwelling, graveyard-shift nerd by night and an aspiring peddler of exorcised creative demons by day. He and his chinchilla live in a tin can on the side of the interstate somewhere in South Carolina. This is his first novel.

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      Of Popes and Pentagrams - Adam Ingle

      A Mestoph and Leviticus Mini-Fiasco

      By Adam Ingle

      Copyright 2014 © Adam Ingle

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Contents

      The Fabulous Mr. Trismegistus

      On the Kidnapping of Popes

      A Pope and a Hard Place

      Like Judas, Only Different

      The Happiest of Pentagrams

      Is Papicide a Word?

      Afterword

      Part I

      The Fabulous Mr. Trismegistus

      Mestoph and Leviticus were sitting in the Bean Counters coffee shop waiting for their mark to arrive.  They had been spying on Marcus for a week now, and he was nothing if not predictable.  He was as boring a human as the two had ever seen.  Marcus lived alone with an odd dog that was more than he seemed, worked a boring computer programming job that was even less than it seemed, and kept a schedule as predictable as a trashy romance novel.  They didn't have to be at the coffee shop as early as they were; their mark was as reliable as the Virgin Mary’s period, except for that one time. Regardless, they enjoyed the coffee, and though neither would admit it, they enjoyed the quiet time spent with each other.

                    Leviticus wrinkled his nose and sniffed his coffee.  A rancid odor had wafted towards him.  Mestoph smelled it, too.  He looked around for the source before noticing an oddly familiar figure ambling past the window outside.

                    Son of a bitch, said Mestoph. It's not your coffee.

                    What is it? asked Leviticus.

                    Unfinished business.  Let's go.

                    Leviticus placed the lid over his coffee and followed Mestoph out the door and into the street.  Mestoph turned left and walked towards an alley between the coffee shop and an appropriately cold, stone life insurance building.  This time of morning, the long shadows cast by the building plunged the alley into darkness.

                    I'm not going in there, said Leviticus.

                    Christ, you're an Angel, Mestoph sneered.

                    That doesn't make me stupid.

                    Would you rather face it now when we know it's ahead of us, or worry about walking blindly into an ambush later?

                    And this isn’t blind?

                    Mestoph ignored him and walked into the shadows.

                    Fuck, was all Leviticus could muster before trailing after his impetuous friend.

                    Out of the darkness a rumbling laugh rolled across the pavement and sent shivers up the Angel's spine.

                    Hell, no, was all Leviticus said before teleporting out of the alley.  With a pop the air imploded as if Leviticus was about to be swallowed through a hole in space, but was then immediately spit back out.  Leviticus stood in the same spot with a surprised expression on his face.

                    Mestoph's eyes had quickly adjusted to the gloom, There's a sigil on the ground; we’re powerless in here.

                    You asshole.  What was that about walking into an ambush?

                    A

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