Godfree Beelzebub's Masquerade

Beelzebub is the founder and current headmaster of the order of the Fly,a demented court of demons in Hell. He fell from grace with God after killinghis older brother, Dagon, with an Archangel Blade. Believing that God maynever forgive him for killing Dagon, Beelzebub sets himself upon a course of eviland duplicitous misdeeds here on Earth. Initially, he finds Nero, Caesar of Rome,whom he happily touches.Over time and through history, Beelzebub touches and creates Attila the Hun,Genghis Khan, Vlad Prince of Wallachia, King Leopold II of Belgium, MaximilienRobespierre, Joe Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Pol Pot.After two thousand years of evil duty and tired of bloodshed, violence, and death,Beelzebub lands in San Francisco and finds a hopeless attorney, Richard H. Daily,suffering from losing his wife and son to an unsolved hit and run head-on car accident.Beelzebub decides to touch Richard, erasing his memories, possibly out of guilt.With no memory of his impressive past, Beelzebub uses Richard as his patsy toplay with human character flaws: greed, pride, incompetence, and stupidity,as a new form of evil entertainment.When human tragedies begin to occur: wildfire, social injustice, murder, and riot,Beelzebub's hold over Richard starts to take a back seat, fall apart amd weaken.Eventually, with the help of Archangels Gabriel and Raphael, an old lover, and amysterious Jesuit priest, Richard slowly discovers that Beelzebub has duped him.To send Beelzeub back to Hell, Richard's old friends and secret partners must trick himwith a confidence game to get close enough to use the Archangel Blade.However, fooling the greatest trickster of all time will take untapped courage andnewfound faith in God and humanity to save Richard's soul. Ultimately, only true lovecan save Richard from Beelzebub - The original Lord of the Flies.Godfree Beelzebub's Masquerade is a suspenseful, multilayered examination of thehuman condition as seen through the eyes of the fallen angel Beelzebub and thelives of the people he touches.