The Left Hands of God by Paul Hoffman may be the gripping first instalment in an extraordinary trilogy.

“Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is known as after a damned rest for there is absolutely no redemption that continues on there and much less sanctuary.”

The Sanctuary from the Redeemers is a huge and desolate place – a location without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as children and for years possess endured the brutal routine of god, the father Redeemers whose cruelty and assault possess one about The Left Hand of God singular purpose – to provide in the name of the main one True Faith.

In another of the Sanctuary’s vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy. He’s probably fourteen or fifteen years old – he is not sure and neither is normally anyone else. He offers long-forgotten his actual name, but now they contact him Thomas Cale. He’s unusual and secretive, witty and wonderful, violent and profoundly bloody-minded. He’s so used to the cruelty that he appears immune, but shortly he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and see an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place, or die.

His only wish of success is to escape over the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite from the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt.

But the Redeemers wish Cale back again at any cost… not due to the trick he now understands but because of a a lot more terrifying key he will not.

The Left Hand of God is a must read. It is the initial instalment inside a gripping trilogy by Paul Hoffman. Think about if Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose. Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this series.

Praise for Paul Hoffman:

‘This book gripped me through the first chapter and then decreased me days later, dazed and grinning to myself’ Conn Iggulden

‘Incredible momentum’ Daily Telegraph

‘A cult classic .’ Daily Express