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're just facing each other...what do you suppose they're doing up there?" Tommy asked, pointing his camera towards Essen and the others. 


Johanna hanging up her cell phone subsequently then replied, saying, "I don't know, but I don't think we'll want to be here on the ground when anything happens. Come on, Tommy. I've just called in for a chopper...we're taking this to the air." 


"To the air..." He repeated with hesitation. 


"Yes, Tommy. Now let's go," she took his arm and began running with him in the opposite direction from the impending showdown. 


But in the centre of it all was Essen and he broke the tensed silence between the two sides, first advocating for peace. 


"I don't know what she has told you about us, but we don't have to do this," he said, referring to the Burning Woman. 


"But we must," the albino man with the animal powers insisted, prowling around in his torn khaki trousers and bare chest. 


Chapter 52: Clash of the Titans (Part 1)