A supernatural thriller where broken heroes face their deadliest enemy yet—and the game has just turned personal.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer still…
The war with the Chiang Shih is over, but the Templars have paid a brutal price for victory. Bodies are buried. Scars run deep. Even the legendary Echo Team has not escaped unscathed—its commander returned a changed man, his thirst for vengeance finally quenched, but his spirit shattered into pieces.
It is the moment Simon Logan, the Necromancer, has been waiting for. The sadistic death-mage who once raised armies of the dead orchestrates a daring prison break, slipping through Templar fingers like smoke and vanishing into the night. Newly promoted Captain Riley and the reformed Echo Team are given the job of hunting him down and dragging him back—dead or alive.
But the Necromancer isn't running. He's playing a different game entirely.
Rather than waiting for Echo to come looking for him, Logan takes the battle straight to them—luring former Commander Cade Williams away from his sanctuary and stealing the physical form of his wife, Gabrielle. A woman caught somewhere between life and death. A soul Cade literally stormed the gates of Hell to rescue. The Necromancer has just committed perhaps the one act that could rouse Cade from the grey haze of his broken existence.
And Logan is about to learn what happens when you wake a sleeping monster.
An adrenaline-fueled chase through this world and the next, where death magic, desperate heroism, and unanswered questions collide in explosive fashion.
As Cade ruthlessly tracks the Necromancer through shadow-realms and back alleys, through necropolis cities of the dead and the neon-lit streets of the living, he can't silence one burning question: What could Logan possibly want with a half-dead woman and the man who had traveled to Hell and back to save her? Is this revenge? A twisted experiment? Or something far worse?
The answers are buried deep. The body count is rising. And time is running out.
The Echo Team will need every weapon in their arsenal, every hard-won lesson from their battles with demons and fallen angels, and every ounce of tactical precision if they're going to stop the Necromancer before he completes whatever dark ritual he's begun. But Cade Williams isn't fighting for duty anymore. He's fighting for the woman he loves. And when a Templar warrior fights for love, Heaven and Hell both step aside.
Perfect for fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Kim Harrison's The Hollows series, and Lilith Saintcrow's Jill Kismet novels.
What readers are saying:
"Infernal Games raises the stakes to impossible heights. Cade Williams broken and hunting the one enemy who knows exactly how to hurt him? I couldn't stop reading."
"This is what Book 4 should be—consequences, character growth, and a villain who's three steps ahead. The Necromancer is terrifying because he's SMART."
"If you love the Dresden Files but wish Harry had military backup and deeper emotional scars, the Templar Chronicles delivers. Infernal Games is the series at its absolute best."
"Nassise writes broken heroes better than anyone. Watching Cade claw his way back from the edge while hunting a necromancer who's playing psychological warfare? Chef's kiss."
"The Hollows meets military thriller. Kim Harrison fans will love the magic system; tactical fiction fans will love the combat. Everyone will love the pain."
New York Times bestseller Joseph Nassise delivers another "tour-de-force of adrenaline-drenched mayhem" in the 4th book of the action-packed Templar Chronicles supernatural thriller series.
