War in Heaven, Charles Williams
War in Heaven, Charles Williams
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War in Heaven

Author: Charles Williams

Narrator: David Pickering

Unabridged: 9 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2021


Synopsis

War in Heaven is the first novel Charles Williams published, and also his most comic. The Holy Graal has been stolen and the magician who stole it is up to no good—wanting to use it to amply his own powers for his nefarious ends. An Anglican archdeacon steals it back, and together with a Catholic duke, they seek to keep it safe. When the magician blackmails the archdeacon all seems lost—and that's when Prester John shows up... War in Heaven is everything you've come to expect from a Williams novel—suspense, supernatural danger, and a Mysticism so real and good and terrible that nothing can stand against it.

About Charles Williams

Charles Williams (1909–1975) was one of the preeminent authors of American crime fiction. At the end of World War II, Williams began writing fiction while living in San Francisco. The success of his backwoods noir Hill Girl (1951) allowed him to quit his job and write full time. Although originally published by pulp fiction houses, his work won great critical acclaim. Many of his novels were adapted for the screen, such as Dead Calm (published in 1963) and Don’t Just Stand There! (published in 1966), for which Williams wrote the screenplay. Williams died in California in 1975.


Reviews

Goodreads review by mark

synopsis: various Englishmen, an Englishwoman, and a lively Englishboy are embroiled in a murder mystery, a sort of treasure hunt, the nefarious goals of various occultists, and a diverse array of paranormal happenings; unsurprisingly, they barely bother to acknowledge let alone comment on the spiri......more

Goodreads review by Sheila

Charles Williams died in 1945, aged fifty-nine, and I acquired three of his novels recently from a second-hand stall. This is the first one I’ve read. I found myself thinking of the differences between modern writing and the stories of not-too-long ago, remembering reading Dickens as a young teen an......more