Night Prayers

11 hrs. 8 min.

Language Russian

Author Ken MacLeod

Narrator Irina Vorobyova

Description

The bishop is dead. Surveying the ruins left of a tiny church, police inspector Adam Ferguson realizes it was blown up. There is no doubt it was a terrorist act. Nothing like this has happened for a long time. Terrorism is history…

After the war in the Middle East ended and sea levels rose — after Armageddon and the Flood — came the Great Rejection. The First Enlightenment separated church from state. The Second Enlightenment separated religion from politics. In the new enlightened world no one persecutes anyone, yet the millions who still believe in God and worship Him are a minority that is not trusted.

Now someone has begun killing believers. At first suspicion falls on atheists more militant than the secular authorities. But when unbelievers become victims of the terrorists, it becomes clear that something very ancient has risen from the ashes. Something ancient and very, very dangerous…