David Morrell's Creepers was
a publishing event in 2005, a powerful, edgy, dark thriller
by a master of the genre. A New York Times
best-seller, it won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award and
earned numerous critical raves. Scavenger, Morrell's
latest novel, takes us in a harrowing new direction: a
desperate high-tech scavenger hunt for a 100-year-old time
capsule. Frank Balenger, the resolute but damaged hero of
Creepers, now finds himself trapped in a nightmarish
game of fear and death. To save himself and the woman he
loves, he must play by the rules of a god-like Game Master
with an obsession for unearthing the past. But sometimes the
past is buried for a reason.
Scavenger is a
brilliant, frightening hunter-hunted tale that layers modern
technology over the dusty artifacts of earlier times. The
result is a surreal palimpsest, one that contains the secret
of survival for Balenger and a handful of unwilling players
who race against the game's clock to solve the puzzle of the
time capsule, only to discover that time is the true
scavenger. Morrell's trademark action sequences are embedded
with fascinating historical clues that make Scavenger
a thrill-a-minute page-turner as well as a mesmerizing
literary experience.
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