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Enoch's Portal: A Stephan Raszer Investigation

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Stephen Raszer is a private investigator who specializes in deviant religions. A client hires him to rescue his wife who has fallen afoul of an especially dangerous doomsday-type cult. Raszer is off on a whirlwind adventure around the globe to rescue her before the clock ticks out.

For those up on mystery religions and secret societies, this book will be a treat. Aspects of this book reminded me of The Illuminatus! Trilogy and Focault's Pendulum. The author gets bonus points for working in one of my favorite pieces of obscurum, The Voynich Manuscript.

However, something in all this never quite clicks into place, though I cannot say exactly what. As I said in the review title, there is great potential here, but it misses the mark on delivering.

Obviously, this isn't a book for everyone, especially those with no knowledge of the rather sweeping subject matter. I suspect that in a year or two I'll re-read this, and either adjust my rating up or down one star.