This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

GODS KINGDOM. Copyright © 2015 by Howard Frank Mosher. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Chapter 2, “White Knights” was originally published in Hunger Mountain Review, in 2013, in a somewhat different format.

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First Edition: October 2015