Hammer of God, the sequel to Promise of the Black Monks by Robert Hirsch, is now available!
Ordained as a Black Monk, Tristan de Saint-Germain is initiated into the conspiratorial, violent world of Medieval Europe’s most secretive organization, the Benedictine Underground. But winds of change are stirring across the continent, and Tristan finds himself cast into raging currents of time and circumstance far outweighing his capacity to repel; challenging the very glue of his unshakeable faith; sweeping him toward the precipice of personal and spiritual perdition.
Thus caught in the ever merciless web of Church-sanctified intrigue, political manipulation, and assassination, a yet greater trial suddenly emerges from his past… the shadow of Mala the Romani, beautiful gypsy girl of his youth. Finding himself lost in her ethereal thrall, Tristan struggles to honor his loyalty too Cardinal Odo de Lagery and the Church, while also unearthing within his own heart the limits of an all-consuming, encompassing love rooted so deeply as to invite spiritual collapse and eternal damnation.
Hirsch received his undergraduate degree from Cameron University and began teaching history and French, then earned his Master’s Degree at the University of Southern Mississippi and Doctoral Degree from Nova Southeastern University of Miami/Ft. Lauderdale,
He has experienced his own adversities concerning racial stigmas and Catholic doctrine, writes with distinct accuracy of the walled façade individuals construct to insulate themselves against others and the terrors of life no less formidable than those constructed by powerful and established institutions. Contrition, his first novel (JournalStone, 2012) explores the dark underside of the conscience; that infected and decaying region of our past existence that draws each of us back to the pillories of punishment time and time again.
Promise of the Black Monks sequels—Hammer of God, Horde of Fools (2017), God’s Scarlet Fury (2017) and the final is yet to be announced—are all being published by Argus Publishing. Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency Amazon Also to be found on other online sites and in local and chain bookstores.