An ARKANE Thriller by J.F. Penn
End of Days
Today is the beginning, and tonight is the end…
A sarcophagus raised from the deepest place on Earth.
Seven seals scattered across the ancient world, from a temple of pythons in Benin to the ruins of Armageddon itself.
And inside ARKANE, an enemy feeding every move to a brotherhood that wants the apocalypse now.
Morgan and Jake race from Delphi to the Valley of the Kings to Jerusalem under a blood moon, where the ancient serpent of Revelation waits to be woken.
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The research behind the book
Snake-handling churches
Real congregations take up serpents on the words of Mark 16:18. The book opens among them.
The serpent's strange journey
Eden's villain becomes Moses' healing bronze serpent becomes a metaphor for Christ. That mystery seeded the book.
The Temple of Pythons
In Ouidah, the sacred pythons of Dan live opposite the cathedral, in peace.
Tel Megiddo
Armageddon is a real hill with twenty-six layers of cities. Jo has walked it twice.
The brazen serpent window
Salisbury Cathedral's window of Moses' serpent is exactly as described in the book.
Learn more →The Mariana Trench
The deepest place on Earth, and what a research vessel might raise from it.
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Stone of Fire
Book 1
Crypt of Bone
Book 2
Ark of Blood
Book 3
One Day in Budapest
Book 4
Day of the Vikings
Book 5
Gates of Hell
Book 6
One Day in New York
Book 7
Destroyer of Worlds
Book 8
End of Days
Book 9 · this book
Valley of Dry Bones
Book 10
Tree of Life
Book 11
Tomb of Relics
Book 12
Soldiers of God
Short story
Spear of Destiny
Book 13