num_pages: 274
description: Two years after the Civil War Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow has gone undercover with one of the weird West's most dangerous outlaw gangs-the troop led by Reverend Asher Rook ex-Confederate chaplain turned hexslinger and his notorious lieutenant (and lover) Chess Pargeter. Morrow's task: get close enough to map the extent of Rook's power then bring that knowledge back to help Professor Joachim Asbury unlock the secrets of magic itself.Magicians cursed by their gift to a solitary and painful existence have never been more than a footnote in history. But Rook driven by desperation has a plan to shatter the natural law that prevents hexes from cooperation and change the face of the world-a plan sealed by an unholy marriage-oath with the goddess Ixchel mother of all hanged men. To accomplish this he must raise her bloodthirsty pantheon from its collective grave through sacrifice destruction and apotheosis.Caught between a passel of dead gods and monsters hexes galore Rook's witchery and the ruthless calculations of his own masters Morrow's only real hope of survival lies with the man without whom Rook cannot succeed: Chess Pargeter himself. But Morrow and Chess will have to literally ride through Hell before the truth of Chess's fate comes clear-the doom written for him and the entire world.
language: English
title: A Book of Tongues
publisher: ChiZine Publications