About the book: 2019 / From century to century, demons are tearing into the souls of people from the gray Abyss, in which nothing has ever happened and nothing will ever happen. Exorcists and executors, through prayers and fire, save the souls of the possessed, driving the unclean back into the void that gave birth to them. This was how it was from the very creation of the world and this was how it should have been until the end of its days. But a man appeared capable of commanding demons as if he were his own vassals. And a new heresy spread like a plague through the cities. And the possessed stood under the banners of the apostate monarch. And the old treaties and vows were forgotten, and the smell of a big war was in the air. A war in which poison and daggers will mean no less than armies and fortress walls. A war of all against all. What, you ask, does the traveling agent of the royal Secret Service Sebastian Mart have to do with this? He shouldn’t have taken on the task of exorcizing demons, that’s all. The publication includes a previously unpublished story “The Holy Detective” about the adventures of Sebastian Marth in Norweim. The events unfolding in it occur parallel to the plotline of the novel “Pestilence”».