By Mickael Taddeo
This fast-paced sci-fi/spiritual novel retells the Armageddon tale of Archangel Gabriel, now in the character of a brilliant and tortured Montreal homeless man on the run from the CIA in a different era. Clearly, you haven’t heard this perspective on the story before.
The story is set in a future in which military training includes high tech remote viewing and time-travel skills, and airline companies compete for first scheduled round-trip flights to the Moon. New Agers and indigenous shamans ally their greatly enhanced psychic abilities against the sophisticated psychological warfare of psi-corp CIA in an epic battle of good vs. evil.
In a protracted climax, the good guys invoke Earth’s deepest powers and mysteries, the CIA mounts a massive and destructive offensive, and a magical and high-tech war of words (both sides employ sacred incantations as weaponry) ensues.
All of this makes for a rollicking blockbuster of a tale, but truly, the story’s background digs much deeper. As a profoundly prescient young scholar, Gabriel had accelerated through an ancient history and archaeology curriculum. Lured by power and opportunities afforded by the CIA, he became pivotal in their drug and neo-tech time travel experimentation until, disillusioned, he had broken away—losing in the process decades of memory and the “habit” of aging.
Throughout, our hero’s personal saga is wrought with tenderness and believability. Gabriel struggles not just to overcome world domination by evil neo-cons, but also to recapture his own past and the source of his powers. As he rediscovers himself, he shares wise counsel with a fascinating cast of loosely wired homeless people. There is action across the veil of usual space-time and mind, but as presented by Taddeo, it reads less as esoteric paranormality and more as fun and liberating to the ego-illusion that binds us to our joys and woes.
No self-respecting Armageddon would bring to bear anything less than the mightiest weapons of Good (capital G) and Evil (capital E), and Taddeo rises to the occasion. New consciousness evolution and mass spiritual renewal join the military and tech holocaust, as hell breaks loose. As for the promise of resurrection? You’ll have to read it for yourself. (Friesen Press, Victoria, BC)
—Mac Graham
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