Jon's Upcoming U.S. Tour Dates
Angel City is coming, June 2013!
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Angel City — The Film
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The Watchers, June 2012
Lausanne, Switzerland.
In the cathedral tower lives a strange boy with a limp who talks to the bells. In a luxury penthouse lives a high-class prostitute who's in mortal danger. And in a low-rent hotel lives a private investigator who has no idea how he got there.
Jay Harper finds himself in Switzerland working as a security consultant for Guardian Services Limited. A hard drinker, he can barely remember how he got home last night, let alone why he accepted this job. When he meets the stunning but aloof Katherine Taylor in a hotel bar, he realizes he's not the only one in town who's for hire. She's a high-class hooker who can't believe her luck....which is about to change in the worst way imaginable. In the meantime, Marc Rochat waits in the belfry, talking to the bells and his cat and his imaginary friends who come and go like ghosts. His job is to call the hour over Lausanne through the night, and to keep watch for the lost angel his mother told him he'd one day have to save. One night, he sees Katherine Taylor running through the streets. She's on the run with a pack of merciless killers closing in, she has no place to hide. Marc Rochat knows that Katherine is the angel...and that only he can save her.
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In the cathedral tower lives a strange boy with a limp who talks to the bells. In a luxury penthouse lives a high-class prostitute who's in mortal danger. And in a low-rent hotel lives a private investigator who has no idea how he got there.
Jay Harper finds himself in Switzerland working as a security consultant for Guardian Services Limited. A hard drinker, he can barely remember how he got home last night, let alone why he accepted this job. When he meets the stunning but aloof Katherine Taylor in a hotel bar, he realizes he's not the only one in town who's for hire. She's a high-class hooker who can't believe her luck....which is about to change in the worst way imaginable. In the meantime, Marc Rochat waits in the belfry, talking to the bells and his cat and his imaginary friends who come and go like ghosts. His job is to call the hour over Lausanne through the night, and to keep watch for the lost angel his mother told him he'd one day have to save. One night, he sees Katherine Taylor running through the streets. She's on the run with a pack of merciless killers closing in, she has no place to hide. Marc Rochat knows that Katherine is the angel...and that only he can save her.
Goodreads • Amazon • Barnes & Noble • iBookstore • Indiebound • Penguin.com
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Watch a video interview with Jon Steele in Lausanne, Switzerland
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Praise for The Watchers
From the press:
From booksellers:
From early readers:
- “A seductive cosmic thriller stoked by historic fact, an ancient Jewish religious text, and a literary classic... Steele’s lavishly atmospheric, witty, bloody, and swashbuckling tale of age-old struggles for dominion between angels and demons is the propitious first book in an ambitious series.” --Booklist (Starred)
- “An imaginative metaphysical thriller… Steele keeps his tale tantalizingly ambiguous, casting it with fey characters and skillfully concealing until the climax whether apparent weird events haven’t been manipulated to make them seem so. This solidly plotted tale, the first in a trilogy, will appeal to readers who like a hint of uncanny in their fiction.” –Publishers Weekly
- “A first novel (and first in a series) from Steele, for years a master cameraman for Independent Television News and author of War Junkie, an underground classic; really smart work for serious thriller readers.”--Library Journal
- “Reads like Paradise Lost by way of John Connolly, although Steele, formerly a war reporter, brings hard-edged modernity to this timeless tale as he roots his depiction of evil in the contemporary world. Clever, stylish and epic in scale, it’s a tremendously satisfying debut.”--Irish Times
From booksellers:
- “An amazing page turner with a cast of characters not to be forgotten. A perfect blend of mystery and fantasy set in Switzerland, Jon Steele's thrilling novel takes off and does not let up til the climatic ending…A top pick!” – Margie Turkett, Barnes & Noble
- “It was one of those books that I kept reading because I was intrigued, and then all the sudden I was completely enraptured with it. Marc was one of the best characters I've read in a long time.” -- John Kwiatkowski, Murder by the Book
From early readers:
- “The ancient cathedral of Lausanne (Switzerland) becomes the playground for the eternal fight between good and evil. A crippled, simpleminded belfry watcher, an amnesiac detective, and an American high society call girl are the unwilling and unknowing players in this captivating, thrilling story. You can't stop reading.” – Jean-Paul Adriaansen (5 stars, Good Reads)
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