Reliquary by Kris Brooker
A theocratic Commission rules. Patron rules absolute. The people believe they are protected by Saints, and that their city alone survived Armageddon.
When a Duma crime-boss tasks Scout to track down a stolen Relic, what he omits to mention is the Commission want it too, and they’ll kill anyone who stands in their way.
Find the thief, find the relic. Find a heretic, Kat, who’s as dangerous as she is beautiful. Scout puts them both in the crosshairs of a state sanctioned assassin. Their survival now depends on finding the relic.
It’s an uneasy alliance, through a black market in forbidden history into an underworld of religious sects, to find they’ve stumbled upon an ancient prophecy, and into a heretical coup.
All sides desire the relic. Understanding it’s purpose will reshape the future of Mankind.
A very enjoyable and easy read in this very very uneasy time. An escape to somewhere worse than Covid that really perked me up
This is it people. Reliquary is what’s coming for us all. Everything in this book makes sense, even the ending. Hope springs eternal
Reliquary gives it all, from past to present. Took me where I needed to go. There’s so much going on. I’d happily read again
A bold if somewhat oppressive vision of the future. Sectarian divides that Brooker fills with mischief and murder. Wasn’t disappointed
Secret cults, black markets, and assassins. Kat is my girl, she’s a thief with a conscience trying to save the what’s left of Humanity