A Band Begins To Play

‘A Band Begins To Play’, (acknowledgements to Rudyard Kipling), is a story of an ungodly quest to provoke, by mystical means, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to create catastrophe of biblical proportion and fulfil the prophesies of the Book of Revelations: The Rapture- Tribulation- End Time. To herald the birth of a New World Order that conversely will be ruled over by the ‘New Man’, The Anti-Christ. This evil intent rebirths itself, a contagion that seeps through history seeking the ‘Chosen Man’. A cult spawned in the caves of Medmenham during 18C Hellfire Club abominations, Dionysian Dismemberment, marries with 19C German philosophy in which Nietzsche’s ‘Ubermensch’ (Superman) will subjugate the Untermenschen (inferior beings) and Liebenfel’s ‘Sodom-Apelings’. Thus the blue-print is drawn for the Thule-Gesellschaft Society, (aka The Brotherhood of Death Society), foundation for the NDSAP ‘Nazi’ party. (Which has largely succeeded in concealing its occultist roots) With the failure of mass sacrificial slaughter during two world wars, a young SS officer is spirited out from a dying Berlin to continue the quest and reform the occult brotherhoods into the Hindenburg Society. His remit, to create a Third World War End-Time. After decades of patient planning and manipulation, the new 21C sees increasingly fractious political and religious confrontations worldwide; particularly the Middle East. That young officer, now an octogenarian media mogul, deems that the time is now ripe to instigate his Great End Plan. Mass terrorism. As ever, the imbalance of cosmic positive-negatives produces an opposing force; the life battered brothers Randall, their family long stained by a cruel stigma; Harry, a time-worn fireman tied in to a love-lost marriage. Bradley, a Special Forces soldier who dared but lost, now interred in a military psychiatric unit. Both are nominated by fate to become standard bearers for the forces of good in the battle for the true God. Aided by Don Bolger, an enigmatic investigative journalist with his own secret agenda, and ‘Jimmy’, a 111 years old veteran of the Great War and witness to the Angel of Mons phenomena, they embark on a desperate hunt for, and violent confrontation with, the End-Timers and Inner Circle of the Hindenburg Society to thwart their threatened ultimate atrocity - ‘HELLFIRE’.