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

The following night Ezra and Essen, who was still in the wheelchair, were in a grimy, dilapidated elevator going downwards. Essen kept his bushy beard and his head was under a blue baseball hat that was pulled as far as it could have gone down into his face. Ezra wore a black hoodie with the hood drawn over his head. 


"This place doesn't feel safe Essen...nor hygienic," Ezra complained, brushing off a cockroach that was quickly crawling up his jacket. 


"Just keep it cool, Ezra. We're here to get Merci. You said she could teleport. Well, we need a teleporter to bust David out of that asylum." 


"Wow, we're still going forward with that plan," he said with a freakishly scared smile. 


"Ezra, I told you we need to assemble the whole team. David is a part of that team. I'm not leaving him in that place to rot. None of those doctors can help him. He needs us. He needs his friends." 


Chapter 33: The Stiletto (Part 1)