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The Devil Pulls the Strings Podcast Series

J.W. Zarek

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Do you like when time travel, twisted history, and secret societies collide? The Devil Pulls the Strings, described as The Librarians meet The Magicians, is an epic fantasy adventure set in modern-day Wentzville, MO, New York City, and 1813 Genoa, Italy, weaves bromance, Slavic mythology, secret societies, Paganini’s music and time travel. Boone Daniels (22) has problems, debilitating panic attack, gut-wrenching guilt, an evil spirit wendigo haunting him since age six, and now he almost kill ...
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ACT FOUR Chapter Thirty-Four – EXEMPLUM OMNIUM REPOSITUM 12:29

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Boone searches for Sapphire and Rizos deep in the Lavender and Roses Society Secret Archives. Rizos offers Boone a significant gift. Secret societies, prophecies, psychography Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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ACT FOUR Chapter Thirty-Two – CYBELE’S TIME CRYSTALS 14:26

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Boone’s stuck in the past, unless he can find a way to return to modern-day NYC. Travel through time to get back to New York City, engaging, lively, intense Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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ACT FOUR Chapter Thirty-One - LAPUSHKA 12:35

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Boone searches for Baba Yaga Sister’s cat, Lapushka, involving darkness and tight spaces that the wendigo calls home. Occult, supernatural fantasy in a full circle hero’s journey with monsters Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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ACT FOUR Chapter Twenty-Eight - THE VILLA 14:26

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Boone escorts the girl who wears Sapphire’s face back to her home, meets her mother and two sisters, and makes a discovery. Human struggles in an exciting action adventure Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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ACT THREE Chapter Twenty-Seven - MÉLUSINE’S CUP 14:05

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Boone finds himself near a lake in Genoa, Italy, and spots three bandits about to attack a girl in medieval-style dress. Chilling thriller, heart racing hero journey Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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ACT THREE Chapter Twenty-Six – BELVEDERE CASTLE 8:52

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Boone and Sapphire search for the cockatrice outside Belvedere Castle in Central Park at Midnight. “Don’t travel through the wrong portal.” Life and death human struggles with danger and adventure Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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ACT THREE Chapter Twenty-Four - WICKHAMBY’S OFFICE 23:12

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Professor Wickhamby gives Boone a bag of stones and Midnight task - find and feed the cockatrice in Central Park, to open the portal used to retrieve a rare blue rose grown by the Mother of all Witches – Baba Yaga herself. Sword and sorcery in a funny urban fiction Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.co…
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ACT THREE Chapter Twenty-One – RIZOS’ PLAN 30:32

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Boone and Sapphire find out Rizos’s plan. Boone saves a domovoi. And Rizos sends Boone and Sapphire to collect a sheet of Paganini’s music. Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones ghost this fantasy series. Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho…
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ACT THREE Chapter Twenty – THE BIG BOOK 17:05

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At the Lavender and Roses Society Headquarters, Rizos shows Boone and Sapphire, the Big Book. The same big book that connects to time travel. Boone doesn’t know how he’s getting back to modern-day NYC, or why he’s where he is. The wheel of time shifts to gothic medieval. Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwza…
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ACT THREE Chapter Nineteen – HERE-THERE-EVERYWHERE 21:29

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In the Lavender and Roses Society Headquarters, Boone, and Sapphire search for Rizos. In the Lavender and Roses Society Headquarters, Boone and Sapphire meet a cat called Machiavelli. Rizos gives Boone a choice to help save NYC or go home with his memory wiped. Devilish decisions in an epic paranormal fantasy series with secret societies Buy the fu…
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ACT TWO Chapter Eighteen – LAVENDER AND ROSES SOCIETY 11:59

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Boone and Sapphire find the entrance to the Lavender and Roses Society. “Mr. Daniels, you might want to switch to high gear.” Time travel and gothic fantasy Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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ACT TWO Chapter Seventeen – ROOF PARTY 6:13

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Oh-oh. Sinti’s men enter Stone’s brownstone, and the only escape for Boone and Sapphire - The roof. LitRPG and the way of kings collide in this fast paced steampunk action novel. Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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ACT TWO Chapter Fourteen – STAGE FRIGHT 14:08

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A nightmare wakes Boone. Upon his lips the name Rumsey Playfield. The words spill out of his mouth. Sweat covers his body, and his stomach’s a flip-flopping mess, and the sense something is wrong. And then his head fills - images of injured people. Lots of injured people. People full of dread and fear. Dark fantasy in a fast paced urban fiction Buy…
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ACT TWO Chapter Thirteen – FROSTBITTEN DIPLOMACY 5:10

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Boone and Sapphire have a run-in with the French Ambassador’s Executive Assistance, Miss Page (27), who’s not happy to see Sapphire and is the bearer of bad news. Hell and devil, sword and sorcery Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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ACT TWO Chapter Eleven - PROFESSOR WICKHAMBY 17:29

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Sapphire tells Wickhamby they need to speak in private, so she can tell him Professor Stone is dead, and Wickhamby shares critical information with Boone and Sapphire. Contemporary humor for teens and young adults Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone…
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ACT TWO Chapter Nine – SPACE 879A 11:29

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Sapphire shows Boone Space 879A, a place to hide from Sinti’s men. But after the door shuts behind them, they are in for more terrifying trouble. Boone knows the wendigo comes when he is in the dark or tight spaces. Folklore magic and gothic horror. Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more ab…
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ACT TWO Chapter Eight - STEINHARDT BUILDING 19:07

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Sapphire and Boone go to Professor Stone’s Office in the Steinhardt Building to call the police and find Paganini’s sheet music. They find an unpleasant surprise on a copy machine. A commotion inside Stone’s office draws their attention. Can they escape the gunfire? Game of Thrones dark fantasy. Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsSt…
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ACT TWO Chapter Seven – FANCY FOUNTAIN 6:18

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While walking with Sapphire to Stone’s office, Boone has a waking vision, and finds himself back in 1794 Genoa, Italy, in front of an ornate fountain. There is something familiar about Mélusine. A time travel adventure, the way of kings. Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad …
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ACT TWO Chapter Six – HAT AND WATCH 5:10

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On a bench in the quad in front of the NYU Stern Building, Sapphire shares something significant with Boone. A small watch on Sapphire’s porkpie hat plays Paganini’s Concerto No. 1 for the violin, her mother’s favorite. A sword and sorcery steampunk novel. Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn …
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ACT TWO Chapter Five - FEED ME 13:06

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At a public quad in front of the NYU Stern Building, Boone finds out the girl’s name and her involvement with the murder they just witnessed. Boone finds out the girl is Sapphire Anjou. Boone tells Sapphire they should go to Stone’s office to call the police, and are interrupted by a nearby homeless woman, a sister of a powerful witch called Baba Y…
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ACT ONE Chapter Four – NY RED TOP TAXI 11:07

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The taxi is teleported to the address provided by the girl. And the driver demands payment in song. The taxi driver hands Boone his card, and Boone and the girl exit the taxi. Gothic LitRPG - Literary Role Playing Game Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more at jwzarek.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega…
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ACT ONE Chapter Three – FIRST TIME ANYWHERE 10:40

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Boone arrives at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC, and with no time to walk to Stone’s brownstone, he finds a taxi. Outside Stone’s brownstone, Boone steps out of the taxi and catches sheet music for Paganini’s sonata, Le Streghe. A girl carrying a violin case barrels into Boone. Then another body crashes onto the pavement next to them. Boone…
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ACT ONE Chapter Two – CRUSHED 8:21

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On the bus ride from Wentzville, MO to New York City, Boone has a waking dream he’s traveled back in time, to 1793 Genoa, Italy, and watches an argument between thirteen-year-old violinist, Niccolò Paganini and ten-year-old Ambrozij Serafin Sinti. An epic time travel adventure. Buy the full audiobook at https://bit.ly/DevilPullsStrings. Learn more …
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ACT ONE Chapter One – PROMISE ME 16:03

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Scene opens at the same jousting arena minutes earlier. After four years of bumps, bruises and preparation, twenty-two-year-old Boone Daniels gets the opportunity to joust his best friend Flynn Michaels. As their lance tips cross, the horses are spooked by the sound of a loud horn, and Flynn is thrown onto Boone’s lance. The wheel of time rolls for…
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Prologue – THE PROPHECY 16:20

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A prophecy scroll found by Scottish Warrior Laureus in the Lavender and Roses Society’s caverns and tunnels beneath New York City, is given to Professor Stone who sighs. “You know what must be done,” and gives Laureus a horn. “But that means one of our own must die,” Laureus takes the horn, leaves Stone, and travels through a portal to the jousting…
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Welcome to The Devil Pulls the Strings by J.W. Zarek 4:36

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Do you like when time travel, twisted history, and secret societies collide? The Devil Pulls the Strings, described as The Librarians meet The Magicians, is an epic fantasy adventure set in modern-day Wentzville, MO, New York City, and 1813 Genoa, Italy. It weaves bromance, Slavic mythology, secret societies, Paganini’s music, and time travel. Boon…
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