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

They walked a good way in the hallway without saying a single word to each other. The thunder and heavy rainfall outside kept the place alive. They shortly then past the same warder that earlier brought David into the room. The Doctor and he even exchanged a pretty long stare from the corner of their eyes. 


All after sudden, David realized he was passing the passageway to his cell door. "Where are we going? I'm not allowed to wander the corridors." 


"David, you're not a prisoner," the Doctor said, stopping at an elevator door, which he then opened. 


Stretching his hand forth, he kindly asked David to step into the elevator first, which David thereupon did cautiously. The Doctor followed him in and the elevator started to move downwards to the basement. 


The basement had a narrow hallway with black and white tiles on the floor. On each side of the hallway were air-tight sealed, transparent glass cells not like the ones above. 


Chapter 43: Descent Into Madness (Part 2)