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The Left Hand of God

The Left Hand of God Trilogy #1 / 3 ✓
by Paul Hoffman
The Left Hand of God (The Left Hand of God Trilogy #1) by Paul Hoffman
  ★ 8.20 / 10
1★2★3★4★5★6★37★48★19★210★

"Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary."

The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place – a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose – to serve in the name of the One True Faith.

In one of the Sanctuary's vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy. He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old – he is not sure and neither is anyone else. He has long-forgotten his real name, but now they call him Thomas Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming, violent and profoundly bloody-minded. He is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune, but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or die.

His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt.

But the Redeemers want Cale back at any price… not because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does not.

"Writers like Hoffman are too rare. This wonderful book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself." – Conn Iggulden

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Category: Fantasy
Release date: January 5, 2010

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Paul Hoffman

Paul Hoffman

Paul Hoffman studied English at New College, Oxford before becoming a senior film censor at the British Board of Film Classification. He lives in the United Kingdom.

The Left Hand of God Trilogy

The Left Hand of God Trilogy consists of three primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

The Left Hand of God (The Left Hand of God Trilogy #1)
  ★ 8.20 / 10
The Last Four Things (The Left Hand of God Trilogy #2)
  ★ 8.00 / 6
The Beating of His Wings (The Left Hand of God Trilogy #3)
  ★ 7.76 / 4
The White Devil (The Left Hand of God Trilogy)
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01/03/2014
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Adam
25 books, 11 reviews
★★★★★★★★★☆ 9 / 10

loved this book and great set up of things to come

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