Motive is one of the three primary elements reviewed by investigators after a violent crime. Motive, means and opportunity generally provide clues to who did the deed. People don't just commit violent crime; there are no random acts of violence. However, HATER destroys the idea of motive as a primary element.
One fine day, a random day, a day like any other, motive stops meaning anything. People start killing their friends, families and strangers. They might be on the phone, taking a walk, performing their jobs and they suddenly start killing.
HATER is a brilliantly executed imagining of how one would react to waking up in the world where anyone, even oneself, might become a killer. Tension-filled, unpredictable and timely, Moody's work gets under the skin and roosts in the mind long after the last page is turned.
Soon to be a major motion pictureβproduced by Guillermo
del Toro and directed by J.A. Bayona
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INSTRUCTIONS THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL Society is
rocked by a sudden increase in the number of violent
assaults on individuals. Christened 'Haters' by the media,
the attackers strike without warning, killing all who
cross their path. The assaults are brutal, remorseless and
extreme: within seconds, normally rational, self-
controlled peopleΒ becomeΒ frenzied, vicious killers. There
are no apparent links as a hundred random attacks become a
thousand, then hundreds of thousands. Everyone,
irrespective of gender, age, race or any other difference,
has the potential to become a victim - or a Hater. People
are afraid to go to work, afraid to leave their homes and,
increasingly, afraid that at any moment their friends,
even their closest family, could turn on them withΒ ultra
violentΒ intent.Β Β Waking up each morning, no matter how
well defended,Β everyone must now consider the fact that by
the end of the day, they might be dead.Β Or perhaps
worse,Β become aΒ killer themselves.Β As the status quo
shifts, ATTACK FIRST,Β ASK QUESTIONS LATERΒ becomes the
order of the day...Β Β only, the answers might beΒ much
differentΒ than whatΒ you expect.... In the
tradition of H. G. Wells and Richard Matheson, Hater is
one manβs story of his place in a world gone madβ a world
infected with fear, violence, and HATE.
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