The Night Sessions: A Novel

A priest is dead. Picking through the rubble of the demolished Edinburgh tenement, Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson discovers that the explosion wasn’t an accident. When a bishop is assassinated soon afterwards, it becomes clear that a targeted campaign of killings is underway. No one has seen anything like this since the Faith Wars. In this enlightened age there’s no religious persecution, but believers are a marginal and mistrusted minority. And now someone is killing them. But who? And – perhaps more importantly – why? The more his team learns, the more the suspicion grows that they may have stumbled upon a conspiracy way outside their remit. Nobody believes them, but if Ferguson and his people fail, there will be many more killings – and disaster on a literally biblical scale …

Reviews of The Night Sessions: A Novel

MacLeod spins a yarn that moves at a fast pace, and which doesn't disappoint; exciting and intriguing, it keeps a consistent level of interest throughout its passage … a satisfying read SciFiNow A twisting conspiracy tale shot through with MacLeod's gloriously mordant sense for the absurd BBC Focus Gripping and clever near-future thriller Lisa Tuttle, The Times A stunning indictment of fundamentalism of all kind s' Eric Brown, Guardian