Jack Of Ravens
Kingdom of the Serpent: Book 1
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This is the Ultimate Fantasy: a quest of epic reach spanning the globe under the mythologies of five great cultures - and finally crossing the barrier between life and death.
Jack Churchill, archaeologist and dreamer, walks out of the mist and into Celtic Britain more than two thousand years before he was born, with no knowledge of how he got there. All Jack wants is to get home to his own time where the woman he loves waits for him.
Finding his way to the timeless mystical Otherworld, the home of the gods, he plans to while away the days, the years, the millennia, until his own era rolls around again ... but nothing is ever that simple.
A great Evil waits in modern times and will do all in its power to stop Jack's return. In a universe where time and space are meaningless, its tendrils stetch back through the years ...
Through Roman times, the Elizabethan age, Victoria's reign, the Second World War to the Swinging Sixties, the Evil sets its traps to destroy Jack.
Mark Chadbourn gives us a high adventure of dazzling sword fights, passionate romance and apocalyptic wars in the days leading up to Ragnarok, the End-Times: a breathtaking, surreal vision of twisting realities where nothing is quite what it seems.
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Once more mashing up fantasy, mythology, and Gnosticism, two-time British Fantasy Award-winner Chadbourn (The Devil in Green) returns to a universe wherein the Void threatens to destroy Existence. Jack "Church" Churchill wakes to find himself in Celtic Britain over 2000 years before his birth struggling desperately, along with the other Brothers and Sisters of Dragons, to ward off a mysterious Evil and return to his life and the woman he loves. Careening through time from the Iron Age, to ancient Rome, Renaissance-era Venice, WWII London, and 1960s San Francisco, Church must battle the Army of Ten Billion Spiders, nefarious gods, and the traitorous Ryan Veitch, hunter of the Brothers and Sisters. Crossing back and forth from the timeless Otherworld and the temporal New World, Church races to find the Fabulous Beast that will unleash England's dormant magic and save it from the Void. Chadbourn balances vividly realized worlds, plenty of action, and some wry humor to help carry this paean to hope in its war against despair.