From the acclaimed author of the Vorrh Trilogy comes an epic odyssey following a group of
mercenaries hired to escort a divine oracle on a long journey amidst a war between the living
and the dead. Sheltering beneath Das Kagel the cloud-scraping structure rumored to be the
Tower of Babel the sacred Monastery of the Eastern Gate descends into bedlam. Their ancient
oracle Quite Testiyont--whose prophesies helped protect the church--has died leaving the
monks vulnerable to the war raging between the living and the dead. Tasked by the High Church
to deliver a new oracle Barry Follett and his group of hired mercenaries are forced to
confront wicked giants and dangerous sirens on their mission keeping the divine creature alive
by feeding it marrow and confessing their darkest sins. But as Follett and his men carve their
way through the treacherous landscape the world around them spirals deeper into chaos. Dominic
a young monk who has mysteriously lost his voice makes a pilgrimage to see surreal paintings
believing they reveal the empire's fate a local woman called Mad Meg hopes to free and
vindicate her jailed son and becomes the leader of the most unexpected revolution and the
abbott of the monastery influential as he is seeks to gain even more power in this world and
the next. Rich with action and fantastic creatures Hollow ushers the reader through a world of
ruin where holy secrets are unearthed art mirrors life through a glass darkly and death looms
over everything. It is B. Catling's most accomplished and gripping tale yet. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL
