纪连海

一场历史性的重大灾难悄然而生，世界最具代表性的建筑巴黎圣母院危在旦夕。16个小时的烈火焚烧，1200摄氏度的高温，融化的铅水伴随着浓浓毒烟，阻碍着消防人员前进的道路，一切似乎已无力回天。如此情形下，价值连城的荆棘皇冠，856年来人类文明的浓缩瑰宝又该何去何从？艺术和生命又到底孰轻孰重？。杨奇是重庆某市消防官兵，叮当是杨奇入伍后训练的第一只搜救犬，一人一犬在训练的过程中，建立起深厚的感情。在一次地震救援任务中杨奇为保护叮当受重伤，被迫提前退役。离开杨奇后的叮当抑郁很久，好不容易接受了新主人林枫，却在一次火灾救援中，为救出困在烈火中的婴儿而受伤，失去了继续做搜救犬的资格，受到英勇称号表彰的叮当提前被安排住进了搜救犬疗养中心。在疗养中心的叮当，无时无刻都想着把自己训练成搜救犬、因保护自己而受伤的杨奇，终于有一天，叮当鼓起勇气，踏上寻找自己第一个主人的道路。。American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。