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A.P. Andes Releasing Volume II
of Genre-Bending Series,
The Latecoming West,
in October, 2023
LAKE ZURICH, IL. A.P. Andes’ Uproar and Heresy, the second novel of his quartet of historical-thriller fiction, The Latecoming West, is set to be released on October 10, 2023.
The book will be available on Amazon as a paperback and an eBook, and distributed by IngramSpark to Barnes & Noble and elsewhere as a print on demand paperback and eBook. Successive titles in the groundbreaking series, Falling through the Roof of Hell and The Annihilating Hero, will follow.
BookLife praised Volume I, John the Angelic, saying: “Andes shines in the first volume of this ninth-century historical literary fiction quartet, The Latecoming West, based on the early medieval life of Pope Joan. . . History buffs—particularly those enamored of Pope Joan—will devour this impeccably researched and skillfully written tale.”
Uproar and Heresy continues Joan’s astounding story of ascent through the Church’s ranks disguised as a man, while the peril of her identity looms over every success. But the book also introduces the series’ other key storyline: the journey of Rahel Buchwald and Patek Mroz, two star-crossed Jews who meet in 1930s Berlin as Hitler is coming to power, charting their struggles as the new order draws them nearer apocalypse.
“This series is fueled by the sinister, timeless theme of consensus in human history that has strangled voices of truth to preserve the status quo of those in power,” Andes says. “Warriors of fierce originality and courage have challenged that narrative since the dawn of civilization, from Socrates to Pope Joan to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and beyond.”
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Volume II Release Update
Uproar and Heresy, Volume II of The Latecoming West, will be released in 2023.
Now available on Barnes & Noble and Apple!
As of October 19, 2021, John the Angelic: A Chronicle of Pope Joan, Volume I of The Latecoming West, is available on Amazon/KDP, Barnes & Noble, Apple, and IngramSpark (retailers, libraries, and other distributors only).
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Released on October 16, 2021, John the Angelic: A Chronicle of Pope Joan, Volume I of The Latecoming West, is now available on Amazon/KDP and will soon be available at IngramSpark, Apple, and Barnes & Noble.
A.P. Andes to publish John the Angelic,
first volume of The Latecoming West,
on October 19, 2021
A.P. Andes’ John the Angelic, the first novel of the genre-bending quartet of historical-mystery fiction, The Latecoming West, is set to be released on October 19, 2021.
The book will be available both as a print on demand paperback and as an eBook through KDP/Amazon, Barnes and Noble (date TBD), and IngramSpark (date TBD). Successive titles in the groundbreaking series, Uproar and Heresy, Falling through the Roof of Hell, and The Annihilating Hero, will follow.
John the Angelic charts the course of the brilliant, charismatic figure, Joan of Mainz, a woman who disguises herself in the ninth century as a man to join a monastery after surviving terrible tragedies and striking out on her own. A.P. Andes has been driven since the early 1980s to tell the extraordinary tale of a woman who allegedly ascended to the papal throne between 855-57. The story of Johannes Angelicus, as Joan becomes known, is, like all histories, complicated by the motives of those who survived to share it. But the quartet goes far beyond her story.
The Latecoming West is fueled by the timeless figure of consensus in human history that has strangled voices of truth to preserve the status quo of those in power. As Joan’s erasure from the holy lineage she has briefly become a part of draws near, the quartet’s larger narrative summons other cultural “deviants” spanning from ancient Greece to the Holocaust and beyond. As for Joan herself, Andes has penned a cloak-and-dagger account that, given what we know, may be a more likely explanation than the prevailing one for Joan’s shocking death.