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This book is dedicated to my sons Shiloh and Chandler, who play video games with a vengeance.
(They get that from their dad.)

CanтАЩt wait tillHellgate: London comes out
so we can kick butt together!


Acknowledgments
Thanks to editor Marco Palmieri, who helped me figure out the world and how best to approach the
novels.

And to the novel review guys at Flagship Studios: Bill Roper, Chris Arretche, Matt Householder, Tyler
Thompson, David Brevik, Ivan Sulic, and Phil Shenk, who have helped me stay on the path and
provided encouragement.

Thanks also to Steve Goldstein at Flagship Studios (www.flagshipstudios.com) for shuttling the material
along.


HistorianтАЩs Note
This story begins eighteen years prior to the events depicted in theHellgate: London video game.


Prologue
LONDON, ENGLAND
ALLHALLOWSтАЩ EVE, 2020

The winged demon sped out of the darkness without a sound until it was almost on top of its prey. Then
it screamed, a bloodcurdling, high-pitched shrill of terror. The razor-sharp claws of its lower appendages
were open to grasp and slash. It looked like a cross between a wedge-headed cat and a flying lizard
packed into a vaguely feminine form. Glittering silver-gray scales covered the creature from head to tail.
Sulfurous odor trailed in its wake.

The demon was a Blood Angel. And the prey was Thomas Cross, who had witnessed a similar such
creatureтАФmaybe the same oneтАФgut a fellow Templar standing beside him only a few moments ago.