Publisher's Synopsis
Giles Bastet 9th Heavenly Cat, lord high overseer of accidental death, has awoken to a world that has forgotten all about him and he doesn't like it. Mankind seems to have lost its way and forgotten its duties to Giles and his kind, and Giles, being a curious cat, intends to find out how this has happened. Giles travels through history, shifting through man's wars, empires and literature to find his answers - all the time spreading the chaos only an ancient deity of accidental death can do.
Giles wreaks justice, vengeance and clumsy death on all those that cross his path, from witch trials, to slavery, from man's beginning, to the modern modern shopping mall, Giles' journey shows him the best and worst of mankind, and teaches him a deeper truth about his place in the world.
Multi-genre, multi styled - from Gothic to text from Norse Epic to graphic comic - Giles touches the lives and works of Dante, Hemmingway, Woolf, Poe and others - and always with disastrous consequences. Arise Giles Bastet 9th Heavenly Cat, is a darkly humorous genre crossing journey through the horrors and injustices of history, as seen through the eyes of a minor deity, who knows, mankind should be busy doing other things, like bringing him a bowl of cream in a golden bowl.
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