In the city’s heart, apathy kills.
In a city where the grind never stops, Brother Malachi knows that the most dangerous weapon isn't a blade or a bullet—it’s the choice to stop caring entirely.
When an entire apartment block is found in a state of living death, Detective Vincent Russo is confronted with a mystery that has no physical fingerprints and no clear motive.
The residents haven't been poisoned or attacked; they have simply abandoned the will to exist, succumbing to a spiritual fog that Vincent cannot arrest or interrogate.
As the lethargy spreads like a contagion through the city's most vulnerable streets, Malachi must leave the rhythm of the cloister to confront a predator who harvests the souls of the weary.
Vincent searches for a chemical cause, but Malachi battles a "spiritual virus," using his ancient Monastic Rule to keep his own mind from drifting into the fatal sleep of the forgotten.
When the world loses its meaning, the only way out is to keep watch.
The Acedia Fog is the fourth book in the Brother Malachi Thrillers, a gritty, fast-paced Christian suspense series that explores the thin line between justice and redemption. Fans of the psychological intensity in novels by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti, or the atmospheric, moral weight of authors like Charles Martin and Steven James, will fall in love with the investigative world of Brother Malachi.
This is the digital e-book edition.
Previous book: The Silent Fuse (Book 3, e-book).
Continue the series with The Dead-Weight Vow (Book 5, e-book).