ANGELS: Shock & Awe

The "Trumps of Doom" sound to signal the coming final Apocalypse, but the agents of the world's end are not biblical supernatural legions; they are flesh and blood aliens, who call themselves Angels! Graham K is nobody special, just an anonymous citizen of the Earth who is “Chosen” to function as interlocutor between Man and the Angels. Graham is enjoying a visit to Disneyland when the “Trumps of Doom” sound. He will struggle to keep his sense of humanity while he slowly realizes that he’s being used as a pawn by the alien invaders. For the Angels are not supernatural, just technologically advanced (by many millennia) beings who believe they have an inherent right to impose their own system on humanity. They are powerful, extremely long-lived, extraordinarily beautiful, and completely arrogant creatures who have returned to Earth to take it over for their own purposes, treating humans as lesser creatures. From the moment of their arrival (heralded with the world-wide blast that renders most modern technology useless), the world is thrown into chaos – old religions tumble, new ones are formed, and global politics rendered meaningless. Somehow, Graham has to raise humanity’s status with the Angels, or the whole world faces a bleak future as barely-tolerated lesser beings, begging for metaphoric scraps at the masters’ table.