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.