Once again Barker demonstrates his superiority of imaginative locations such as the Cenobitical Order located in the Monastery High Office. This fortress built seven hundred thousand years ago, has a sole purpose of keeping its priests and priestesses from the volatile politics of Hell. Scarlet Gospels hold many intense confrontations formed by several strong characters that are brought to the foreground. One of course is the Hell Priest himself, a tortured soul who has been accused by the Cenobites of having an undesirable alternate motive for the sub-species of Pyratha. Another is Harry D’Amour, a private investigator who wears special tattoos that senses danger by an internal erratic alarm.
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