Stephen Cianca

Memos from Below: a Devil's Discourse Stephen Cianca

Meet His Infernal Eminence, Vermin Loveless, devil with a cause. Loveless is the consummate bureaucrat: urbane, clever, diplomatic, and ruthlessly Machiavellian. In this collection of recently discovered memoranda, Vermin Loveless, Secretary General of the Terrestrial Division, lays out with biting wit and fiendish cunning his grand scheme on behalf of the Infernal Empire to conquer Earth and enslave humanity once and for all. A disciple of Lord Screwtape (now descended into the deepest circles of the infernal lowerarchy), Loveless instructs his subordinates in the Terrestrial Division about their mission to corrupt humanity completely and forever. Loveless is relentless in his single-minded pursuit of human destruction and expects no less from his underlings. As he reminds them in his first memorandum, "Remember how you got your present positions: over the defeated backs of those who preceded you. I'm in charge now. Failure is not an option." With a host of infernal characters from Toadpipe (Screwtape's former secretary and now Loveless' hapless assistant) to Her Maleficence, Astarte Vicious (Chancellor of Hell Proper with her own ambitious ideas), Memos From Below combines Christian apologetics with a bat's eye view of diabolical intrigue and strategy. Memos from Below is a wake-up call to a world that has fallen asleep in its comfortable illusions of self-sufficiency.