Abramelin Code

The Nazis have the tanks. She has the ghosts.Oxford, 1939. The world is holding its breath for war. But for Bathsheba "e;Batty"e; Vane, the war has already started in the shadows.A brilliant but chaotic historian with a scandalous reputation and a talent for the "e;Sight,"e; 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.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.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.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.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.History is written by the victors. But the war is won in the dark.