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St. Martin's Griffin
December 2009
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Featuring: Saul Laski
800 pages ISBN: 0312567073 EAN: 9780312567071 Paperback
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βCARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that.β --Stephen King "Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever.Β A true classic." --Guillermo del Toro "CARRION COMFORT is one of the scariest books ever written.Β Whenever I get the question asked Who's your favorite author? my answer is always Dan Simmons." --James Rollins "One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finneyβs Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Richard Mathesonβs I Am Legend, and Stephen Kingβs Salemβs Lot. --David Morrell THE PAST...Β Caught behind the lines of Hitlerβs Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp.Β Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Naziβs themselvesβ¦ THE PRESENT... Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for SaulΒ will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkestΒ corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret societyΒ of beings who may oftenΒ existΒ behind the world's most horrible and violent events.Β Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to 'use' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression.Β EachΒ year, three of the most powerful of thisΒ hiddenΒ orderΒ meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction.Β But thisΒ reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saulβs quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankindβs attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itselfβ¦
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