Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth...

• BBC
• Hywel Bennett
• Dinah Stabb
• Dan O'Herlihy
• Sting
• Anthony Steel
• Roland Curram
• Ian Redford
• Ingrid Pitt