The Time of the Seventh Angel
by David Gurr
A prophetic thriller spanning global conflict, secret power, and the fragile edge between hope and annihilation.
A prophetic thriller spanning global conflict, secret power, and the fragile edge between hope and annihilation.
This high-stakes geopolitical thriller for our times defies genre and accelerates without pause. In pursuit of the foreboding Prophecies of Angels from The Book of Revelation, David Gurr propels readers on a global trail of a Messianic Stranger: from Ukraine’s battle for survival against a ruthless Kremlin KGB operative, to covert power games of Insider Washington, the Vatican, and Big Religion, to a PR chasm between Wall Street elites and the forgotten poor of New York City. Confronted with the final Prophecy, at The Time of the Seventh Angel a US President finds himself trapped beside signposts on the route to 9/11 triggered by a rogue missile aimed at Jerusalem — and beyond it, humanity's possibility of either Armageddon or Redemption. Or is this just the fog of war?
David Gurr’s political thrillers have been ranked with those of John Le Carré, Len Deighton and Graham Greene. Like Greene, he is also not afraid to cross borders and challenge publishing conventions. His literary works have been called a tour de force. His writing refuses to be pigeon-holed.
Rare for fiction about art, Gurr's work is itself art. So much dancing with so few misteps is admirably rare. What is more rare; Gurr's novels truly deserve the care and patience they ask of the reader. David Foster Wallace.
“Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, Josef Skvorecky are names to be conjured with internationally. David Gurr joins them.” London Sunday Telegraph
“Wildly audacious. It may put readers in mind of Thomas Pynchon … Original, entertaining, brilliantly inventive.” Publishers Weekly
“Gurr’s work places him in the company of such major 20th Century figures as Malcolm Lowry, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco and Yukio Mishima.” Canadian Literature
