Dark Seeker by K.W. Jeter @kwjeter is in The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle!
Dark
Seeker by K.W. Jeter
is in
The Philip
K Dick Award Storybundle!
His son is dead...
Or that's what he believed. Caught up in the lethal madness of a
Manson-like cult, Tyler has lost everything that once mattered to him. Out of
prison, on a strict regimen of medications to keep the demons inside his head
from returning, he knows he's always one small step away from returning to that
dark place and its horrors.
So when his ex-wife emerges from the shadows into which she had
fled, and tells him that their son is still alive, kidnapped by another former
member of the murderous group, Tyler has some tough, soul-threatening decisions
to make. He can take the safe route that will keep him sane and alive, and just
assume that his ex-wife is lost in some psychotic delusion about their dead
son. Or he can take the risk that maybe -- just maybe -- she's somehow telling
the truth. He can stop taking the medications that the doctors give him, and go
back into that dark world of madness and murder, to try and find the child that
had gone missing so long ago. But if Tyler finds his son, will he be able to
save him? And what will be left of him when he does?
"The real pleasure of this book is in the quality of the
writing. Jeter places three-dimensional characters in authentic Southern
California landscapes with more grit than glamour . . . Dark Seeker provides an intense experience that sticks in the mind
— further proof of Jeter’s versatile talent."
– Locus
– Locus
". . . this may well be his best book yet. It is directed,
dynamically paced, extremely well-written in a modified Chandleresque style,
gritty and unsentimental about the failures of humanity, tight and economical,
and with a lot to say about people and the devils inside them. It never lags
but is deliberate when it needs to be; the plot denouement, usually the
Achilles’ heel of horror, is splendidly worked out. It often seems in this
genre that even the best writers can set up all the elements for the last
twenty pages, yet never come through on them. Jeter has done an admirable job .
. ."
– OtherRealms
– OtherRealms
"This made me feel like a church gargoyle looking out over a
witch hunt in some zombie thrash pit. Not only that, it's really well
written...”
– SF Book Reviews, sfbook.com
– SF Book Reviews, sfbook.com
"Effective, briskly paced, nicely tense..."
– Goodreads.com
– Goodreads.com
"Fully realized, Jeter describes the endless roadways, the
underpasses, the street corners and movie theaters with much color, much
dread."
– Douglaspurdy.com
– Douglaspurdy.com
K. W.
Jeter is an American science fiction and thriller author known for his
literary writing style, dark themes, and complex, paranoid characters. His
latest novels are THE KINGDOM OF SHADOWS,
set in the sinister & glamorous world of the film industry of the Third
Reich, and the Kim Oh Thriller
series -- KIM OH 1: REAL DANGEROUS GIRL, KIM OH 2: REAL DANGEROUS JOB and KIM OH 3: REAL DANGEROUS PEOPLE, with more to come.
“Jeter is an exhilarating
writer who always seems to have another rabbit to pull out of his hat.”
-- The New York Times Book Review
-- The New York Times Book Review
“Brain-burning intensity . . .”
-- Village Voice
-- Village Voice
So
there you have it, my friends. The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle includes
Aestival Tide by Elizabeth Hand
(PKD Finalist), Life by Gwyneth
Jones (PKD Winner), The Cipher by
Kathe Koja (PKD Finalist), Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (PKD Winner), Dark Seeker by K. W. Jeter (PKD Finalist), Summer of Love by Lisa Mason (PKD Finalist), Frontera
by Lewis Shiner (PKD Finalist), Acts
of Conscience by William Barton (PKD
Special Citation), Maximum Ice by
Kay Kenyon (PKD Finalist), Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams (PKD Finalist), and Reclamation by Sarah Zettel
(PKD Finalist).
The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle runs only until October 15. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Download yours today at http://storybundle.com/pkdaward
and enjoy world-class, award-winning
reading right now and into the holidays.
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