The King of Ice Cream: Robert Wayne McCoy

Buried underneath the Kentucky college town of Mill Run, bound by the power of King Solomon and the Ark of the Covenant, is a presence of ill mention in the Book of Genesis and Apocalyptic text. There was a recorded second fall of the angels, and these beings stood like gods among men. In total opposition to their creator's will they lusted after flesh and mated with human beings. Their unsanctioned dalliances caused monstrous evils to be loosed upon the Earth. It was because of this that God flooded the world, seeking to wipe the face of the planet clean.For humanity, however, this was just the beginning...Rogue forces seek to unleash a leader of the second angelic fall. Starting in the town of Mill Run the remaining angels seek to enact a plan of such magnitude, of such power, as to reshape creation. All this to be done in order to regain redemption in God's eyes. Even if they must murder every living human being to do so. A few people aware of this event will stand against the these angels, whatever the personal costs. They will experience the power and awe of the reawakening of a being far older than the stars. And they will battle for the fate of humanity- with the entire world hanging in the balance.

From Publishers Weekly

Set in the small university town of Mill Run, Ky., McCoy's run-of-the-mill horror debut opens on a quiet note. In the fall of 1992, students are arriving at the University of Mill Run, which ranks "with Harvard, Duke, and Dartmouth for Business and Law studies." The Roman Catholic university is home to the Lady of Our Sorrows Cathedral, "the third oldest church on the East Coast, with towering stained glass windows, split level seating, and even catacombs, which had been made into office space." Truman Goodspeed's ice cream emporium epitomizes Mill Run's genial atmosphere, which is soon ruined by strange trucks roaring though town and a series of over-the-top calamities including murder, crucifixion, book burning and kidnapping. Wild-eyed prophets claim insight into some mysterious or forgotten God-given force, which may exist underground. Hopefully, McCoy will bring more coherence and discipline, as well as a better grasp of geography and punctuation, to the "many novels to be penned" promised in his author bio. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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