The book opens with Joel Essen, a scruffy detective, witnessing an assassination of a renowned physicist. Going against his captain’s orders, he investigates the case. But in doing so, he opens Pandora box and learns of a nefarious plan to unleash hell on Earth. This new profound burden pushes the detective into action to go against a group of very powerful individuals. 

As intriguing  as the plot seems, it’s not the heart of the book’s mystery. It becomes rapidly clear that Joel Essen himself is very peculiar. He has his warts and inner demons from his past. A mystery that is slowly revealed throughout the book. The central theme of the book is that ‘no man is an island and no man stands alone’. Seeing that this book is a team up book, Essen will have to learn to trust and work with others. This is something he will especially struggle to come to terms with. In fact the other four main characters will have to learn to do the same. Every character has their own backstory that is perfectly intertwined into the main plot. 

Two Steps From Hell is a very suspensive story and with each chapter, the readers are forced to the edge of their seats. Everything and everyone will be against their favourite protagonist and time will be of the utmost importance to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

Two Steps From Hell

It was now morning. The sun itself had barely assumed its full reign over the sky and the city, although some few miles away, had subdued the quiet of dawn. Essen and David had finished covering Jade in her grave. It was time to leave. So David carried back all the tools they had used to dig and cover the grave, back to a white van parked on a dirt road below. Olivia's car was parked in front of it. Essen and Olivia, however, stopped to have one last look at Jade's grave below the tree atop the hill on which they stood. 


"I knew her," Olivia uttered, breaking the silence. 


"Yes. We met some days ago. It's sad to see what has happened to her now." 


"I'm confused," he admitted, turning his gaze on her. "How did you two even meet?" 


"Honestly, Joel, did you think it was all a coincident that I was at the Gala...that I just blindly helped you and your friends escaped from a failed assassination attempt?" 


Chapter 24: Love Conquers All