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Bancroft Press
December 2012
On Sale: December 17, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 1610880811
EAN: 9781610880817
Kindle: B00AEY8SWY
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Horror | Paranormal
Before the plague, and the quarantine, fourteen-year-old
Daniel Raymond had only heard of the Listeners. They were a
gang, or at least that's what his best friend Katie's police
officer father had said. They were criminals, thieves,
monsters--deadly men clearly identifiable by the removal of
their right ears. That's what Daniel had heard. But
he didn't know. He didn't know much in those early
days. He didn't know how the plague began, but then, no one
did. The doctors and emergency medical personnel said it was
airborne, and highly contagious. They said those infected
became distorted both inside and out, and very, very
dangerous. Then the helicopters came and took the
doctors away, and no one said much of anything after
that. Except the police officers. They said they'd
provide food and order, in exchange for guns and,
ultimately, anything else they felt like taking.
Daniel's mother went out for toilet paper. She never came
back. He hasn't heard from Katie since the phones went dead.
And with his real family gone and surrogate family
unreachable, Daniel, scared and alone, has nothing except
the walls of his apartment, the window shattered, the
poisonous air seeping in. That's when the Listeners
arrive. Derek, the one-eared man with the big, soulful eyes,
promises protection, and hope, and the choice not to sit
alone and wait to die in some horrific way. He offers a
brotherhood under the watch of their leader, the prophet
Adam. He offers a place in the world to come. A
harrowing work of literary horror, The Listeners,
Harrison Demchick's electrifying debut, is a dark and
terrifying journey into loneliness, desperation, and the
devastating experience of one young boy in a world gone mad.
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