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

Picking up right where things had left off in the Bunker, Essen was contemplating whether to grant Merci's request to go back to the cemetery where she could visit her sister. She was at the moment holding Ezra at gunpoint; a flamethrower point to be exact. 


"No, we can't go back to the cemetery," he finally decided. 


But Merci did not want this answer. So she tightened her jawline and spitefully then pressed the trigger of the flamethrower just enough to cause a little flame to appear at the muzzle of it, which she tauntingly aimed at the side of Ezra's face, who was kneeled at her feet with both of his hands and feet bound. 


"What do you mean we can't go back?" She demanded. 


"Easy," the detective quickly cautioned her, lifting his hands in the air. 


Chapter 25: Impending Rival (Part 1)