Strážci – Steele Jon (2013)

Three lives, one goal... From the tower of the cathedral in Lausanne, Switzerland, a strange limping boy named Marc Rochat watches over the city, speaking to the bells and aspiring to become a bell-ringer. He lives in a world of shadows, ghosts, and imaginary beings. He waits for an angel, whom his mother once told him would have to save him one day. Marc is convinced that the angel is an American named Katherine Taylor, a high-class prostitute who pays too much attention to the transgressions of her clients, and as ruthless killers close in, she realizes that her fairy-tale life is coming to an end. Far from there, in a London apartment, a Brit named Jay Harper wakes up one day from a drunken stupor. He remembers nothing of what happened before he received a call from Guardian Services, hiring him for the International Olympic Committee. With no choice, he accepts the job as a private investigator and searches for a missing former hockey star. In the process, he encounters Marc and Katherine and realizes that this is no coincidence. The story is alternately narrated by all three protagonists, each from their own perspective. Steele skillfully navigates between various genres—historical fiction, noir detective, magical realism, or a thriller with supernatural elements. Although The Guardians is a closed story with a resolution, Steele is...