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

Instantly, Essen's bright brown eyes flew wide open with his pupils fully dilated. He awoke in a partially darkened room with the company from a twitching, dull fluorescent light bulb. His heart immediately began to race when he looked down at his nose and saw a large rubber tube going into his mouth. He did not realize this until now, but it was stuffed in his mouth. He could not speak. Just a terror-stricken, mumbling sound he could make. Frantically he then eased himself up in the bed and began to pull out the tube with both his hands, dry-heaving each time the further he pulled at it. 


He pulled and he pulled, but it seemed like there was no end to it. However, when he did get to the end, he flung it to the ground. He was both stupefied and disgusted to know that such a long thing was in him. Now more than ever he wanted to know where the hell he was. 


"Oh, my God. You're awake!" Ezra gasped, startling him. 


Chapter 32: Annihilation