JUSTIN BOHARDT

Why should you be interested in journeying into The Parliament of the Profane?

 

First off, you have to admit- the title is damn catchy. 

 

Secondly, these books have everything you could possibly want in a supernatural action novel- sex, epic superhero battles, true love, car chases, elaborately-styled violence, armies of killer robots, presidential assassination attempts, Vietnam flashbacks (along with flashbacks to the American Civil War, Roman Civil War, The Battle of Thermopylae and World War II), Greco-Roman mythology, angels and daemons, the downfall of humanity at the beginning of existence, designer street drugs, the War in Heaven, pithy banter, nuclear bombs, the apocalypse and sex.

 

Lastly, my wife is a librarian, but she is also legally blind and cannot read for long periods of time without burning out her eyes. As an example, she is a colossal Potterhead, but her condition made it so that she needed a week to read Deathly Hallows. S.O.B. was so addictive to her that she read it in two days. I do not believe I can offer a better endorsement than that.

The Parliament of the Profane began as a single scene- a superpowered individual chasing down a speeding cargo van, leaping onto the back of it, and punching through the back window and into the face of one of several guards who were in the process of kidnapping a woman. I knew the battle would continue on top of the van as it shot down the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in Virginia with our hero fighting it out with other superpowered beings, but eventually saving the damsel in distress by leaping off the top of the van with her and being teleported away just before they hit the water.

 

That scene, which became Chapter 2 of book 1, naturally led to a lot of questions and by answering them, I built an entire alternative history for the world- one where the age of Greco-Roman mythology more or less occurred how Edith Hamilton would tell it, where seemingly immortal beings of great power have been drawn to constant warfare, where superpowered metahumans exist, where everyday people also don the "cape and cowl," where cabals and conspiracies are being propogated to bring about Armageddon, where not all angels who rebelled against God fought with the Morning Star till the end, and not all were sentenced to Perdition.

 

Click on the links to the left to visit the individual book pages. The pages for books 2 and 3 contain some rather massive spoilers for anyone who has not completed book 1, so avoid travelling to them if you do not wish to jump ahead in the journey, my friends.