No doctor could work out what was wrong with Nathan Arnold. A move home illuminates more than just his past as a series of bloody murders stalk him down memory lane.
Nathan Arnold is a perfectly healthy 22 year old man, whose life is constantly hindered by debilitating by illnesses and pain's. The doctors cannot find anything physically wrong with him and he refuses to believe that it is all psychological. Returning home to be closer to his sick mother the truth about both Nathan's condition and painful past is discovered as a series of bloody murders stalk him down memory lane. Sceptic or believer, innocent or guilty, the lines are blurred as the reader and protagonist are invited to make a choice.
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A Tour de Force!
In Jack Price's debut novella, should one be intellectually brave enough to engage it, there is a variable plethora of delightful language and story-telling. With similes involving stubborn old men and ancient scripture personified into a particular emotional state; one could easily be forgiven for believing the book in question was the work of Douglas Adams or Philip Jose Farmer.... perhaps even P.G. Wodehouse (except significantly darker...). This book is a pertinent study of mental and physical illness (amongst other things) & will leave you either celebrating your new found clarity of world-view... OR leave you convinced your clarity-of world view is actually symptomatic of your total insanity.
Grab those side-irons, saddle up and join former Civil War sharpshooter Luther Henry for a ride into pure terror, western-style…think ‘Wild Wild West’ meets ‘The X-Files’.
Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of h
