Current read - The Secret War by M F W Curran 
  
 For thousands of years a secret war has been fought between Heaven  and Hell. Daemons and angels, vampyres and knights, clash for the future  of mankind, and as the two sides wage war across the world, innocent  people are caught up in the conflict – men like Captain William Saxon  and Lieutenant Kieran Harte, two great friends who have recently  survived the horrors of the Battle of Waterloo.  
  
  
  
  But  now they face a greater struggle, against the daemonic forces of Count  Ordrane, and the clandestine ambitions of the Vatican. They must try to  survive assassination attempts, political machinations, epic battles on  land and sea, and above all the power of a mysterious bronze pyramid –  the Scarimadean – that brings everlasting damnation too all who come  into contact with it.  
  
  
  
  Their only allies are an old  man, a fading secret organisation in the Church, and an enigmatic  warrior, who may hold the key not only to the friends’ fates, but to the  fate of all mankind . . .