Description: Paul Fox is an antiques dealer who works the dark side - trading in sorcerous and uncannily empowered objects as well as mundane treasures. It's a business fraught with perils, spiritual and earthly, and Paul's equipped to tackle both. Hiding in plain sight among the charlatans and antiquarians of Salem, he works the fine line between enforcing the pacts that regulate the invisible world, and transgressing them.
When a contract with an unknown client starts throwing up more bodies than artifacts, though, Paul realizes that he may be facing forces beyond his understanding, never mind his powers. On a trail from Baku to Colorado, Geneva to Singapore, as hunter or hunted, he confronts dangers that threaten far more than just his own precarious existence with his girlfriend (?) Yasmin. First in a series, The War in Heaven mixes the globe-spanning chicanery of the trade in precious artifacts with arcane cosmologies and occult mystery. Paul StJohn Mackintosh is a Scottish author, poet, journalist, historian, and games writer, living in France. His details can be found at his web page: https: //paulstjohnmackintosh.com. Praise for Paul StJohn Mackintosh: "Paul StJohn Mackintosh is one of those writers who just seems to quietly get on with the business of producing great fiction." - This is Horror "Mackintosh engages with the written word as a creative expression of some cleansing fire of the spirit, an act of atonement that builds rather than destroys, an orgasmic confession joining pain to redemption that instils a sense of almost voyeuristic guilt in the reader who will likely be unable to look away: perhaps fascinated, perhaps repulsed, perhaps changed... and certainly never bored." - See The Elephant "As smooth as the best chocolate eclair you ever tasted." - Historical Novel Society