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* NayTheist: Audrey believes that by taking her son away, God is punishing her, unfairly so, for an accidental murder of her youth. She does't become HollywoodAtheist, but instead rebukes God and becomes bent on proving He was mistaken.
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* NayTheist: Audrey believes that by taking her son away, God is punishing her, unfairly so, for an accidental murder of her youth. She does't doesn't become HollywoodAtheist, but instead rebukes God and becomes bent on proving He was mistaken.
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:It turns out all that was needed for Satan and God to return to their places was for someone to know the terrible truth and make a HeroicSacrifice.]]
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:It turns out all that was needed for Satan and God to return to their places was for someone to know the terrible truth and still make a HeroicSacrifice.HeroicSacrifice. Jesus failed, but Cloister succeeds, eventually saving the universe.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Apparently, what Satan honestly hoped to accomplish with his rebellion was freeing the world from God's tyranny. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor indeed.]]
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Exorcist Albert Cloister, member of a secret Vatican group called God's Wolves who investigates paranormal phenomena, is called to solve a chilling mission. Several people in the world, have been found with their bones broken by some mystical force after undergoing a hellish NearDeathExperience, and the words "All is Hell" are repeated over and over. The cherry on the cake is a Spanish saint candidate of all people, whose tomb is opened to find him in the same state.
At the same time, psychicatrist Audrey Barrett finds her life shaken by the words of a mentally handicapped old man, Daniel, who seems to have a mysterious connection with paranormal forces. Aided by firefighter Joseph Nolan, who rescued Daniel from a no less strange fire, she will have to join forces with Cloister not only to reconcile with her own past, but to discover a terrible truth, contained in the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, that threatens the entire world.
At the same time, psychicatrist Audrey Barrett finds her life shaken by the words of a mentally handicapped old man, Daniel, who seems to have a mysterious connection with paranormal forces. Aided by firefighter Joseph Nolan, who rescued Daniel from a no less strange fire, she will have to join forces with Cloister not only to reconcile with her own past, but to discover a terrible truth, contained in the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, that threatens the entire world.
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Exorcist Albert Cloister, member of a secret Vatican group called God's Wolves who investigates paranormal phenomena, is called to solve a chilling mission. Several people in the world, have been found with their bones broken by some mystical force after undergoing a hellish NearDeathExperience, and the words "All is Hell" are repeated over and over. The cherry on the cake is a Spanish saint candidate of all people, whose tomb is opened open only to find him in the same state.
At the same time, psychicatrist Audrey Barrett finds her life shaken by the words of a mentallyhandicapped disabled old man, Daniel, Daniel Smith, who seems to have a mysterious connection with paranormal forces. Aided by firefighter Joseph Nolan, who rescued Daniel from a no less strange fire, she will have to join forces with Cloister not only to reconcile with her own past, but to discover a terrible truth, contained in the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, that threatens the entire world.
At the same time, psychicatrist Audrey Barrett finds her life shaken by the words of a mentally
* AmbiguousSituation:
** What's the relationship between Daniel and Satan? Does he communicates telepathically with him because he has untapped psychic potential? Is he possessed by some kind of Satanic spirit that allows it, as shown in the exorcism? But in that case, why does the connection remain after the spirit is exorcised? Was all the Exorcism a charade by Satan to move the spotlight away from Daniel?
** Satan offers apocrypha as proofs of the awful truth behid Christianity. One is the Gospel of Nicodemus, where Satan accuses Jesus of fearing death, which is all right in context, but the other is the infamous Infancy Gospel of Thomas, who shows Jesus as an AxCrazy CreepyChild. This one is not clearly explained how it exactly fits in the plot. Cloister wonders whether the truth made child Jesus evil, but Judas' gospel later reveals not to be the case, as Jesus only found about it in the desert as an adult.
* TheBadGuyWins: With a twist or two, in particular that [[spoiler:the bad guy only wished to become good again to begin with.]] At the end, [[spoiler:Cloister finds Judas' gospel just like Satan wanted, and although it initially looks like Jesus's story is going to repeat, Cloister succeeds where Jesus failed and effectively redeems Satan, saving them all and the entire world.]]
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Audrey uses EMDR to interroga
** What's the relationship between Daniel and Satan? Does he communicates telepathically with him because he has untapped psychic potential? Is he possessed by some kind of Satanic spirit that allows it, as shown in the exorcism? But in that case, why does the connection remain after the spirit is exorcised? Was all the Exorcism a charade by Satan to move the spotlight away from Daniel?
** Satan offers apocrypha as proofs of the awful truth behid Christianity. One is the Gospel of Nicodemus, where Satan accuses Jesus of fearing death, which is all right in context, but the other is the infamous Infancy Gospel of Thomas, who shows Jesus as an AxCrazy CreepyChild. This one is not clearly explained how it exactly fits in the plot. Cloister wonders whether the truth made child Jesus evil, but Judas' gospel later reveals not to be the case, as Jesus only found about it in the desert as an adult.
* TheBadGuyWins: With a twist or two, in particular that [[spoiler:the bad guy only wished to become good again to begin with.]] At the end, [[spoiler:Cloister finds Judas' gospel just like Satan wanted, and although it initially looks like Jesus's story is going to repeat, Cloister succeeds where Jesus failed and effectively redeems Satan, saving them all and the entire world.]]
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Audrey uses EMDR to interroga
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:
** In this universe, popular TV series ''Series/TheXFiles'' was secretly written after real paranormal investigation cases, only not from the FBI, but from the God's Wolves.
** Pope Paul IV founded them, and they capitalize on Gabriele Amorth's work.
* BigGood: Ignatius Franzik, the chairman of the God's Wolves and Cloister's own mentor.
* BodyHorror: The exorcism shows Daniel is possessed by some kind of black fluid inside his veins.
* BrakeAngrily: Performed by Audrey, with the detail that she ponder herself that she could have caused an accident.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: There are a few of them in the novel, like Harrington Durand, Giacomo Zanobi and Audrey herself, and all of them are either explicitly or implicitly off their rocker.
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Eugene's drawings turn out to be prophetical for Cloister's mission. That's it. Satan orchestrated the whole novel's plot down to its very background.]]
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Audrey is a successful psychiatrist, but even her secretary and her can see perfectly she is a depressive, unbalanced, alcoholic mess due to her past, and it's not like she refrains herself from behaving like that in public or her own patients either. Really, the odd thing is that she managed to become a successful psychiatrist to begin with.
** In this universe, popular TV series ''Series/TheXFiles'' was secretly written after real paranormal investigation cases, only not from the FBI, but from the God's Wolves.
** Pope Paul IV founded them, and they capitalize on Gabriele Amorth's work.
* BigGood: Ignatius Franzik, the chairman of the God's Wolves and Cloister's own mentor.
* BodyHorror: The exorcism shows Daniel is possessed by some kind of black fluid inside his veins.
* BrakeAngrily: Performed by Audrey, with the detail that she ponder herself that she could have caused an accident.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: There are a few of them in the novel, like Harrington Durand, Giacomo Zanobi and Audrey herself, and all of them are either explicitly or implicitly off their rocker.
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Eugene's drawings turn out to be prophetical for Cloister's mission. That's it. Satan orchestrated the whole novel's plot down to its very background.]]
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Audrey is a successful psychiatrist, but even her secretary and her can see perfectly she is a depressive, unbalanced, alcoholic mess due to her past, and it's not like she refrains herself from behaving like that in public or her own patients either. Really, the odd thing is that she managed to become a successful psychiatrist to begin with.
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* DevilButNoGod: As with most ReligiousHorror fiction, this is a given. [[spoiler:And it's because Satan defeated God and turned Him into his slave.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Audrey and two of her college friends accidentally killed a security guard during a protest for the Gulf War that got out of hand. Later, Audrey's eight year old son disappeared, which she believes to be God's punishment for the former.
* DevilButNoGod: As with most ReligiousHorror fiction, this is a given.[[spoiler:And It's even commented on by the characters and chalked up to some divine plan, or to some notion that God wants us to know pain so we can recognize Heaven's pleasure and yadda yadda. [[spoiler:But in reality, it's because Satan defeated God and turned Him into his slave.]]
* DevilButNoGod: As with most ReligiousHorror fiction, this is a given.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Apparently, Amazonian shamans are genuinely supernatural, just like Christian stuff.
* GameFace: Giuliu Vasari saw evil's face in a possessed murderous girl in Italy in 1922. But he notes it was more melancholic and sad than evil and terrible.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: Daniel's dreams show good and bad angels with white and black feathered wings respectively.
* GroinAttack: The Vendange Hotel's director apparently murdered his wife in midst of Satanic sex by stabbing her in the vagina and opening her up.
* GameFace: Giuliu Vasari saw evil's face in a possessed murderous girl in Italy in 1922. But he notes it was more melancholic and sad than evil and terrible.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: Daniel's dreams show good and bad angels with white and black feathered wings respectively.
* GroinAttack: The Vendange Hotel's director apparently murdered his wife in midst of Satanic sex by stabbing her in the vagina and opening her up.
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* ImprobableAge: Barrett is a renowned psychiatrist at 36. In real life, completing both medical school and psychiatry takes at the very least 12 years (8+4), which means she should have only a few years of real professional experience under her belt to become famous.
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* ImprobableAge: Barrett is a renowned psychiatrist at 36. In real life, completing both medical school and psychiatry takes at the very least 12 years (8+4), which means she should have had only a few as many as six years of real professional experience under her belt to become famous.famous. Even harder, if we count that her son disappeared four years before the novel's events, meaning that she suffered a massive tragedy that completely broke her only two years into her career.
* InMediasRes: The novel starts with Audrey asking for confession in her childhood's church, which doesn't happen within the story's timeline until at least half of the book.
* NayTheist: Audrey believes that by taking her son away, God is punishing her, unfairly so, for an accidental murder of her youth. She does't become HollywoodAtheist, but instead rebukes God and becomes bent on proving He was mistaken.
* PerpetualMolt: Daniel's dreams show a lot of angel's feathers, some of them bloody. It turns out there is no molt, though - he was witnessing the War in Heaven.
* SelfReferentialHumor: A student has a T-shirt with the message "save literature, say no to best sellers". This coming from a best-seller clearly inspired by ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' wave.
* InMediasRes: The novel starts with Audrey asking for confession in her childhood's church, which doesn't happen within the story's timeline until at least half of the book.
* NayTheist: Audrey believes that by taking her son away, God is punishing her, unfairly so, for an accidental murder of her youth. She does't become HollywoodAtheist, but instead rebukes God and becomes bent on proving He was mistaken.
* PerpetualMolt: Daniel's dreams show a lot of angel's feathers, some of them bloody. It turns out there is no molt, though - he was witnessing the War in Heaven.
* SelfReferentialHumor: A student has a T-shirt with the message "save literature, say no to best sellers". This coming from a best-seller clearly inspired by ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' wave.
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* TakingOverHeaven: Satan tried to do this in the War in Heaven. [[spoiler:And succeeded.]]
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* TakingOverHeaven: Satan tried to do this in the War in Heaven. [[spoiler:And succeeded.]]]] But at the end, [[spoiler:this is reversed.]]
* YouCannotFightFate: Seemingly so, as it turns out Judas betrayed Jesus in order to protect him, not to condemn him as Jesus himself wanted - and by doing so he caused his very condemn. Judas wonders whether perhaps all was a BatmanGambit by Jesus himself.
* YouCannotFightFate: Seemingly so, as it turns out Judas betrayed Jesus in order to protect him, not to condemn him as Jesus himself wanted - and by doing so he caused his very condemn. Judas wonders whether perhaps all was a BatmanGambit by Jesus himself.
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Exorcist Albert Cloister, member of a secret Vatican group called God's Wolves who investigates paranormal phenomena, is called to solve a chilling mission. Several people in the world have been found with their legs broken by some mystical force after undergoing a hellish NearDeathExperience, and the words "All is Hell" are repeated over and over.
At the same time, psychicatrist Audrey Barrett finds her life shaken by the words of a mentally handicapped old man, Daniel, who seems to have a mysterious connection with paranormal forces. Aided by firefighter Joseph Nolan, she will have to join forces with Cloister not only to reconcile with her own past, but to discover a terrible truth, contained in the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, that threatens the entire world.
At the same time, psychicatrist Audrey Barrett finds her life shaken by the words of a mentally handicapped old man, Daniel, who seems to have a mysterious connection with paranormal forces. Aided by firefighter Joseph Nolan, she will have to join forces with Cloister not only to reconcile with her own past, but to discover a terrible truth, contained in the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, that threatens the entire world.
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Exorcist Albert Cloister, member of a secret Vatican group called God's Wolves who investigates paranormal phenomena, is called to solve a chilling mission. Several people in the world world, have been found with their legs bones broken by some mystical force after undergoing a hellish NearDeathExperience, and the words "All is Hell" are repeated over and over.
over. The cherry on the cake is a Spanish saint candidate of all people, whose tomb is opened to find him in the same state.
At the same time, psychicatrist Audrey Barrett finds her life shaken by the words of a mentally handicapped old man, Daniel, who seems to have a mysterious connection with paranormal forces. Aided by firefighter Joseph Nolan, who rescued Daniel from a no less strange fire, she will have to join forces with Cloister not only to reconcile with her own past, but to discover a terrible truth, contained in the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, that threatens the entire world.
At the same time, psychicatrist Audrey Barrett finds her life shaken by the words of a mentally handicapped old man, Daniel, who seems to have a mysterious connection with paranormal forces. Aided by firefighter Joseph Nolan, who rescued Daniel from a no less strange fire, she will have to join forces with Cloister not only to reconcile with her own past, but to discover a terrible truth, contained in the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, that threatens the entire world.
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Nolan finds himself taking a fifth grade classroom to visit the firefighters' facilities, an experience he finds hilariously traumatic.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Satan desired to take God's place... and only found misery.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Satan desired to take God's place... and only found misery.]]
* ImprobableAge: Barrett is a renowned psychiatrist at 36. In real life, completing both medical school and psychiatry takes at the very least 12 years (8+4), which means she should have only a few years of real professional experience under her belt to become famous.
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* TakingOverHeaven: Satan tried to do this in the War in Heaven. [[spoiler:And sucdeeded.]]
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* TakingOverHeaven: Satan tried to do this in the War in Heaven. [[spoiler:And sucdeeded.succeeded.]]
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''616: Todo es infierno'' (''616: All is Hell'') is a 2006 ReligiousHorror novel penned by David Zurdo and Ángel Gutiérrez.
Exorcist Albert Cloister, member of a secret Vatican group called God's Wolves who investigates paranormal phenomena, is called to solve a chilling mission. Several people in the world have been found with their legs broken by some mystical force after undergoing a hellish NearDeathExperience, and the words "All is Hell" are repeated over and over.
At the same time, psychicatrist Audrey Barrett finds her life shaken by the words of a mentally handicapped old man, Daniel, who seems to have a mysterious connection with paranormal forces. Aided by firefighter Joseph Nolan, she will have to join forces with Cloister not only to reconcile with her own past, but to discover a terrible truth, contained in the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, that threatens the entire world.
Possibly Zurdo's and Gutiérrez's most known novel.
!!This work contains examples of:
* GodIsEvil: [[spoiler:With good reasons, as it turns out God is actually {{Satan}}, who impersonated God after the War in Heaven.]]
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Satan of all people. It's revealed that, after winning the War in Heaven, he realized he had gone overboard and was seeking to return God and him to their respective places.]]
* DevilButNoGod: As with most ReligiousHorror fiction, this is a given. [[spoiler:And it's because Satan defeated God and turned Him into his slave.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: At the end of the novel, [[spoiler:Albert Cloister is turned into a pathetic junkie after reading the Gospel of Judas Iscariot.]] He ultimately [[spoiler:gets better, though.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Albert Cloister gives his life to save a little girl. It turns out to be decisive to save the entire humanity.]]
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:It turns out all that was needed for Satan and God to return to their places was for someone to know the terrible truth and make a HeroicSacrifice.]]
* TakingOverHeaven: Satan tried to do this in the War in Heaven. [[spoiler:And sucdeeded.]]
''616: Todo es infierno'' (''616: All is Hell'') is a 2006 ReligiousHorror novel penned by David Zurdo and Ángel Gutiérrez.
Exorcist Albert Cloister, member of a secret Vatican group called God's Wolves who investigates paranormal phenomena, is called to solve a chilling mission. Several people in the world have been found with their legs broken by some mystical force after undergoing a hellish NearDeathExperience, and the words "All is Hell" are repeated over and over.
At the same time, psychicatrist Audrey Barrett finds her life shaken by the words of a mentally handicapped old man, Daniel, who seems to have a mysterious connection with paranormal forces. Aided by firefighter Joseph Nolan, she will have to join forces with Cloister not only to reconcile with her own past, but to discover a terrible truth, contained in the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, that threatens the entire world.
Possibly Zurdo's and Gutiérrez's most known novel.
!!This work contains examples of:
* GodIsEvil: [[spoiler:With good reasons, as it turns out God is actually {{Satan}}, who impersonated God after the War in Heaven.]]
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Satan of all people. It's revealed that, after winning the War in Heaven, he realized he had gone overboard and was seeking to return God and him to their respective places.]]
* DevilButNoGod: As with most ReligiousHorror fiction, this is a given. [[spoiler:And it's because Satan defeated God and turned Him into his slave.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: At the end of the novel, [[spoiler:Albert Cloister is turned into a pathetic junkie after reading the Gospel of Judas Iscariot.]] He ultimately [[spoiler:gets better, though.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Albert Cloister gives his life to save a little girl. It turns out to be decisive to save the entire humanity.]]
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:It turns out all that was needed for Satan and God to return to their places was for someone to know the terrible truth and make a HeroicSacrifice.]]
* TakingOverHeaven: Satan tried to do this in the War in Heaven. [[spoiler:And sucdeeded.]]
