Finished story removed due to Amazon KDP Guidelines as the book is now published. AMAZON LINK: MANUS DEI: Harbinger (Book One of the Khamsa Chronicles)    An angelic science fiction and demonic dark fantasy romp through present-day Earth. With assault rifles. Sniper rifles. A tank or two. Grenades. Drones. Pulse beam machine guns. Longswords. Bastard swords. Axes. Weirdly named gear. Transport thingies. And don't forget the creepy-crawlies. --------- A conflict as old as time. Fought in this world. With the weapons and science of humanity.The time of the Apocalypse is near. While Heaven waits, the minions of Hell have started infesting the world. Corrupting humanity and stealing the heavenly spark that connects mankind to God. Unless stopped, when the end comes, most of the divine power that exists in every person will belong to the Great Enemy.It falls to the shoulders of a few good men and women at the side of diminished angels to delay Armageddon. A retrograde action against the forces of darkness.One of them is Keith A. North, SEAL E-6 on detached service, left for dead in the sandbox. Recruited by the secretive Khamsa, an organization almost as old as recorded history, he learns how to fight against nightmares made real. Limited by rules as ancient as the struggle against Hell. IMPORTANT NOTICE No disrespect is meant to any religion, military unit, government or officially not-a-government agency, black ops group, corporation, sinister cabal, or any other person or entity, whether known or still secret. This is but a work of literary fiction and imagination.