“As the Darkness army unleashes bedlam on the world, hope is placed on one man. Every hero needs help. But who will step up to help Brady? For those who love their thrillers with a metaphysical slant, you’re in the right place. Highly recommended!”
- Chanticleer Reviews
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ABOUT the NOvel
A Hand of Vengeance is the fourth installment of John Stafford’s A Call of Vengeance series.
A gun is fired outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. President Ronald Reagan is hit and slumps into his limousine near death. Six months later a bomb explodes in London. Two are killed and forty injured. What was not reported by the press was that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cancelled an appearance that morning that would have placed her squarely in the kill zone.
It is 1981. In the midst of those two events, as Pope John Paul II greets an adoring crowd in St. Peter’s Square, four shots are fired by escaped murderer, Mehmet Ali Agca. The official story was that the bullet that hit the pope in the abdomen barely missed all vital organs. That was not true. No surgeon could save him from his injuries. But there was still hope.
In A Hand of Vengeance, three seemingly unrelated events are part of a mosaic created by Satan’s warriors, both human and spiritual, to lure Brady, the young man who talks with angels and who can call on the Light of the Blessed Virgin, to a place where his maddening interference will be destroyed once and for all.
But Brady is anointed by God for such a time as this. With his brothers and an ancient line of Hebrew warriors at his side, knowing full well that a hideous trap is laid for him, he again charges boldly into the eternal battle, facing Satan’s foulest in Rome, Paris, and a place of unspeakable horror in Calcutta, India, as he comes to the aid of an Albanian nun who is gallantly fighting for God’s most vulnerable of children.
Brady will lose people he loves dearly. But God will reveal to him that the call and blessing that was given to his grandfather and passed on to his father and then bestowed on himself will continue in his family as he holds faithful to the call.
ABOUT the author
John Stafford, Sr., is a widely-recognized, highly successful, and innovative businessman in the jewelry industry.
His debut novel, A Prayer of Vengeance, paints a vivid picture of the eternal clash between good and evil, which reflects his profound spirituality and observations of the world. It was released in 2018 as the first installment of the Call of Vengeance series, followed shortly thereafter by book two, A Sword of Vengeance, book three, A Song of Vengeance, and book four, A Hand of Vengeance.
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A Prayer of Vengeance
Two forces vie for the soul of the world: Darkness and Light. It is never easy to write the truth of the Darkness, for it is cruel and attacks both body and spirit, bestowing insufferable pain. To gaze into the heart of Darkness is to feel its horror even when we stand at a distance.
But looking into Darkness is a sharp reminder that there is a prevailing Light, offering hope and deliverance from this evil.
When Darkness gathers its forces … when Darkness performs its evil unchecked … our only recourse is to call on the Light in absolute dependence and trust.
For the Light of Heaven has offered the Prayer of Vengeance to a chosen few.
