Product Description

Kevin O'Riley faces his ultimate challenge against Dominic Magister: a mercurial Harlequin demon in the guise of a fellow senior police officer; set against the back-drop of the National Miner's Strike of 1984-1985. Volume Three of The Oxfords Blues Trilogy: The 'Misfits' the last generation of politically-incorrect police-officers: face their final challenge in the mid 1980's Merseyside Police Force. Set between 1984 & 1985 terrorism, police corruption, gangsters and everyday policing mix with a black Pythonesque humour as familiar characters from Oxfords Blues and Oxfords Circus return to do battle with a Mercurial force of evil, both within themselves and society personal transformation through the modern quest for the Holy Grail is set against a background of crime psychology; the supernatural and the occult bringing this personal transformation trilogy to its surreal and epic climax. Volume two of The Oxfords Blues Trilogy: described by British film and television producer Colin McKeowan (The Bill, Liverpool One, Thief Takers, and Liam) as: "Vast, deep and philosophical, a story for Everyman."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3485996 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.12" h x 6.00" w x 9.00" l, 1.61 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 504 pages

From the Publisher
Volume Three of Tom Stevens' ground-breaking Oxfords Blues Trilogy that established the 'Transpersonal' sub-genre of Mythic Fiction.The Oxfords Blues Trilogy: described by British film and television producer Colin McKeowan (The Bill, Liverpool One, Thief Takers, and Liam) as: "Vast, deep and philosophical, a story for Everyman." This is the extraordinary tale of an ordinary man who against the backdrop of policing in 1970's and 1980's battles against dark forces both in the world and in the mind, in a tale of personal transformation through the modern quest for the Holy Grail set into the living mythology of the land itself. Written by a former Merseyside Police Officer from the 1970's and 1980's who is now Jungian psychotherapist.

From the Author
Volume Three of the Oxfords Blues Trilogy is set between the years 1983 and 1985 against the backdrop of the UK's National Coal Miners strike of 1984-1985. Now as the protagonists journey approaches its epic climax his world is penetrated by a mercurial force of evil personified as an evil Harlequin trickster, in the avatar form of a fellow senior police officer - who sets out firstly to destroy his relationship to his police recruit son, then his marriage, then his career, and finally his whole world. The books epic showdown is of truly mythic proportions as the battle is fought for possession and use of the ancient Celtic Cauldron of Rebirth - which has power not only of life death and rebirth, but also over all polarised opposites both in the human psyche and in nature itself. At last the whole truth of his identity is revealed to him as he must face his evil antithesis in the most desperate fight of his life.

About the Author
Transpersonal novelist & Mythic Fiction writer Tom Stevens was born in Liverpool in 1957 He was a serving Merseyside Police Officer for 13 years in the 1970's and 1980's He is a psychotherapist with over 25 years' experience in front-line NHS and private sector health-care He has practical experience of Parapsychological research into the paranormal the supernatural and the occult. His life-long study of history, mythology, comparative religion and Jungian depth psychology, together with his police and professional therapeutic experience form the wellspring of his creative work. He is currently working on a TV project for his Oxfords Blues Trilogy Series with noted television and film producer Colin McKeowan (The Bill, Thief Takers, Liverpool-One and Liam.