Paul D.E. Mitchell Light

A lonely lab technician, Harold Porter, is pulled into a world devastated by the powerful Brothers Mendel – a religious order that worships genetics as God’s Will and releases its Redemption Virus, a lethal airborne disease that targets the unfaithful. In an emptied UK, he appears in a blaze of light to a band of orphaned children being hunted down by the Tally-Men, the relentless Servants of Redemption, surgically altered to obey without question, who ‘tally’ the ‘lost souls’ for either research or redemption. Using his technical skills, and aided by the elusive wiccans of the Motherhood,  he leads his band of starvelings to the Great Abbey to bring down the Brothers and the great A.I. designing the viruses and weapons of the Order – only to find that the self-aware computer has a name: Azrael...