The Abramelin Code

<p><strong>The Nazis have the tanks. She has the ghosts.</strong></p><p><strong>Oxford 1939.</strong> The world is holding its breath for war. But for Bathsheba Batty Vane the war has already started in the shadows.</p><p>A brilliant but chaotic historian with a scandalous reputation and a talent for the Sight Batty prefers the company of dead writers to living soldiers. She spends her days arguing with the Dean and her nights in a haze of absinthe and incense. But when a parrot possessed by the spirit of a dead magician crashes through her window screaming a cipher Batty is dragged into a conflict far older than the Third Reich.</p><p>Recruited by Section 13-a British intelligence unit that doesn't officially exist-Batty discovers a terrifying truth: Hitler's scientists aren't just building bombs. They are building a door.</p><p>Led by the sadistic necromancer Dr. Wolfram Kross the SS Ahnenerbe are hunting for the Abramelin Vault-an ancient reservoir of power that can turn the souls of the dead into a weapon of mass destruction.</p><p>To stop them Batty must lead a team of broken outcasts: a traumatized pilot with a death wish a mathematician terrified of his own calculations and Fenella Nightshade-the seductive dangerous apothecary who holds Batty's heart (and her supply of poisons) in her cool hands.</p><p>From the fog-bound lighthouses of Scotland to the concrete belly of a Berlin Flak Tower Batty must race to break the code before Kross opens the gate to Hell.</p><p><strong>History is written by the victors. But the war is won in the dark.</strong></p>