An ARKANE Thriller by J.F. Penn
One Day in New York
Any wish can be granted: money, power… even death itself can be beaten back. All it takes is the blood of an angel.
A burning cross on the High Line. A medieval ivory crucifix stolen from the Cloisters. A dying nun's last words.
ARKANE agent Jake Timber, in New York for a routine assignment, follows a trail of angels through the city's hidden places, from a secret vault beneath the Public Library to the island where New York buries its forgotten dead, toward a bargain struck at the founding of Wall Street that someone is finally ready to collect.
A Jake Timber solo novella.
Follow the angel.
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The research behind the book
The Cloisters Cross
The walrus-ivory cross is real, its corpus really missing, its inscriptions really strange.
Hart Island
New York's potter's field: more than 800,000 buried, their graves dug by prison labour.
The Buttonwood Agreement
The New York Stock Exchange began under a buttonwood tree in 1792. The novella asks what else was agreed.
John Dee's Enochian
The Elizabethan magus and the alphabet of angels, kept in real libraries.
The tunnels and the stacks
Urban historian Steve Duncan's real explorations inspired the chase beneath the Public Library.
Morning Star
Paul Fryer's bound-angel installation gave Jo the image of what waits beneath Manhattan.
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 · this book
Destroyer of Worlds
Book 8
End of Days
Book 9
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