这部480页厚的小说是暗黑之门三部曲的第一部 。
小说的内容概要如下：西蒙双手握着步枪蹒走出了营地 。
太阳在玫瑰红和奶油色的云端中升向东方，草丛里的温度骤升，西蒙不一会儿就大汗淋漓 。
剧烈的运动使西蒙的头和胃极为不适，而他走起来却还总是有条不紊 。
父亲现在面临的危险让西蒙不得不再次伸出援手 。
在早年间他还年轻时候，很喜欢跑步和武艺，特别是剑术训练 。
不过一切都已经过去，那时他还是孩子，相信恶魔就潜伏在世界各地随时等待机会东山再起 。
现在他可不信了，问题在于现在西蒙不知道有什么可信的事情 。
这一生，他都在学习如何与恶魔战斗，甚至学习了很多神秘的知识来对抗恶魔 。
那些知识只在圣堂武士聚集的地下迷宫中学习，在外界绝不可以被提起 。
他早就厌倦了这一切，在两年前就是西蒙23岁时，他毅然离开了圣堂武士大人??他的父亲和伦敦的一切 。
从第一部书来看，股市发生在地狱之门还没有开启的2020年 。
原文：According to Amazon, Mel Odom’s first Hellgate: London paperback titled“Exodus” is available for purchase. 480 pages long, it is theinitial book of a planned trilogy. An excerpt from the novel has been made available on a number ofsites.Simon took the rifle in both hands and headed out of camp at ajog. Perspiration quickly covered Simon as the grasslands grewhotter with the rising sun. It peeked through the rose and creammass of clouds to the east. His head and stomach protested thestrenuous exercise at first, but ? as always ? his body becameregulated and he moved effortlessly. Once again, all the harshconditioning his father had compelled Simon to do came to hisaid.When he【� been younger, he【� enjoyed the runs and the martialarts, especially the sword training. But that had been back when hewas a boy and still believed that demons lurked somewhere out inthe world just waiting for an opportunity to take it overagain.He didn’t believe that anymore. One of his main problems wasthat he didn’t know what to believe. All his life he【� beenbrought up to fight demons, trained in arcane ways and even taughtlimited mystical abilities. None of which could be talked aboutoutside the Underground labyrinth where the Templar skulked in theshadows.Simon had tired of all of it. Two years ago, at twenty-three,he【� left the Templar, his father, and all of London.From the sound of it, the first chapter occurs before the hellgateopens in 2020 (a year which has shifted about some over the courseof the game’s development).
