SOULBLADE
In 1123 AD, a Viking mercenary raids an Irish village and rides away with a fragment of fallen star. Nine centuries later, he is still alive - and still feeding his blade.
Grunwald's soul blade, forged from a meteorite, sustains his life by absorbing the souls of the living. For nine hundred years he has stayed one step ahead of Anlon mac Colla, the Irish blacksmith whose wife he killed and who has been hunting him across the centuries ever since.
When forty-one people die in Chicago with wounds no modern weapon can explain, homicide detective Sean Griffin catches the case. His investigation leads him from a medieval manuscript archive at Trinity College Dublin to a forge on the Connacht coast - where a man who appears to be twenty-eight years old has been working metal since 1123 AD. With Anlon and his daughter Brigid, a nine-hundred-year-old scholar who has been building the evidence archive for three centuries, Sean follows the trail to a reckoning in Millennium Park that the long centuries have been building toward.
Soul Blade moves between medieval Ireland and contemporary Chicago, spanning five parts and nine hundred years of pursuit, grief, and the daily decision to remain human in the face of everything that would make you otherwise.
A historical thriller. A detective novel. A love story told in letters across nine centuries. Soul Blade is the second novel of Marco Antonio Varela.
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