AMBROSE: THE
BLACK SHEEP
"It
is he who brought the blight of The Trsanti,
and he who tore the Covenant family
apart. He is the blackest of
sheep."
"CLIVE
BARKER’S UNDYING"
In 1923, Patrick Galloway responds to a
desperate letter from his close friend
Jeremiah Covenant and journeys to the
family’s decaying estate on the rugged
coast of Northern Ireland. Upon his
arrival, he learns of the formidable
challenges that await him in this dark
environment so seeped in black powers that
Jeremiah’s four deceased siblings have
been reanimated into walking dead.
Perhaps the biggest threat to Galloway is
Ambrose, the "black sheep" of the
family, who is most responsible for tearing
apart the Covenant family.
Long
forgotten family secrets began to wreak havoc
with the siblings’ filial bond, and one
dark night in 1914 Ambrose fought violently
with his father. Unwelcome in his
family and hunted by the law, Ambrose
mysteriously disappeared
Ambrose
sightings in other countries became more
frequent, further elaborating his devious
past and questionable future. Staff members
at the Covenant Estate shudder to think at
what would happen if Ambrose returned home,
bringing the pain and rage that has brought
his past to almost mythic proportions at
every servant’s whisper. Ambrose
clearly has the greatest understanding of
what the death of the five Covenant siblings
will mean to the world. Worse yet,
Ambrose wants it to happen.
In
1922, Ambrose quietly returned to the
ancestral manor in Ireland, with vengeance on
his mind. His goal was to reunite the
five Covenant children in death as they were
in life, releasing the extraordinary power
they first sensed in their dark childhood
ritual.
Ambrose
brings a loyal – and lethal – group
with him. Called the Trsanti, these men with
bloodthirsty knives and ritualized tattoos
are, in truth, brutal mercenaries under the
guidance of Ambrose. Thought to have their
origins in Turkey, the Trsanti seems to have
a distinct lineage within occult history
for many centuries and no doubt that
working under the guidance of Ambrose these
thugs will solidify their history of
brutality.
A
few preliminary skirmishes with the Trsanti
teach Galloway all he needs to know about how
to defeat them.. But nothing prepares
Galloway for his final showdown with the
undead Ambrose. If Ambrose finds the
magic that he seeks, there will be nothing
stopping him from realizing his dream of
controlling the limitless dark powers
unleashed by the black magic ritual of his
childhood. But there are still
formidable obstacles facing Patrick in his
quest.
After
his many early battles with the Trsanti,
Galloway isn’t ready for the intensity
of the assault launched against him by his
enemy in this life-and-death struggle.
And even if Galloway can survive his
confrontation with this undead sibling –
probably the most ferocious of the family
– he still faces other enormously
imposing obstacles in his quest to uncover
and vanquish the secrets of the curse that
has consumed the Covenants.
Patrick
Galloway’s perilous journey to fight the
forces of evil that torment and threaten to
destroy his close friend Jeremiah Covenant is
just getting started.
