<p>September 1943. The world is at war. Leo Avery has been left with nothing. His home is gone, destroyed in the Blitz, and his only family ¿ his father ¿ has mysteriously vanished.</p><p>When Leo is attacked by a terrifying creature, he is saved from death by a group of strangers calling themselves Angels. Led by the enigmatic Dr Heller, this rag-tag band of hunters wield strange, arcane powers, using them in the fight against monsters they know as ¿dreadfoul¿.</p><p>Leo is soon thrust into a war against the very worst man and myth have to offer, battling both the dreadfoul and the men who intend to use them to create an unstoppable army.</p><p>With the threat of Armageddon looming ever closer, Leo quickly finds himself torn between his new destiny and the search for his missing father ¿ only to find the two are more closely linked than he could ever have possibly imagined.</p>