The Rabbit, The Jaguar, & The Snake

ISBN-13: 9780692886625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 268 str.

James Noll

Opis

From the author of A Knife in the Back, You Will Be Safe Here, and Burn All The Bodies comes The Rabbit, The Jaguar, and The Snake, the first book in an epic tale of adventure and survival. When Bonesaw, an early 20th Century gangster, is rescued from prison by the Brotherhood, he doesn't realize it is actually a kidnapping. They give him a choice: either compete in The Gauntlet (Golgotha, Hell, and The Battle Royale), or they'll cut off his head. Of course, the contest is designed to produce maximum body count, and even if he can make it out alive, he won't like what they have in store afterward. Nearly a century later, Detective Katherine Wheeler investigates a string of murders with similar, horrifying details: each victim dies when something huge erupts out of their bodies. As the corpses pile up, she realizes that an invasion is underway, one that could wipe out all of mankind. Finally, deep in the jungle of a primitive planet, Coatl faces his most dangerous foe yet: the monstrous tecuani. When they overrun the last stronghold in the empire, he decides that the world has one last hope for survival: Ka-Bata and his army. But no one has seen Ka-Bata in years, and nobody even knows if he's still alive. To make matters worse, Coatl was infected by a tecuani, and the larva growing in his leg will soon mature and burst out. Can he find Ka-Bata in time before it does? Separated by time and space, these three unlikely allies, The Rabbit, The Jaguar, and The Snake, must find a way to join forces. If they can, the human race has a chance to survive. If they can't, it is doomed.