by Shaun Hutson
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'Shaun Hutson is an expert in the art of keeping the reader turning the pages' - TIME OUT
Christopher Ward is a writer with a problem. He potters his lonely way about his huge house in the knowledge that his books are no longer selling as they did - he is an author who is deeply out of fashion. As he struggles with his latest novel, writer's block takes a deeper and deeper hold, and he turns to the comforts of alcohol in the attempt to blot out the growing problems. Yet suddenly the words flow, and we read his novel alongside the story of his struggle. But is Ward really writing it? He remembers nothing and mysterious shadows and lights in his office further deepen the mystery, as do the phone calls to prostitutes he can't remember making and the visits to the cinema he fails to recall. Is he losing his mind, or is something far more sinister happening? This offering from the prolific Hutson (over 40 books so far, in various guises) is a mixture of his horror and thriller writing, but the horror largely takes a back seat. For long stretches the book-within-a-book dominates and only towards the end does the more familiar Hutson emerge as he tries to drag the story back to Edgar Allan Poe territory. It's a hybrid in both name and nature, and Hutson's fans may be disappointed by the lack of gore. But it's still well worth reading for the cleverness of the plotting and the sheer page-turning compulsion of the climactic section. (Kirkus UK)
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Christopher Ward signed up with a literary agency on 12th December 1984 wanting to be SO rich it would be obscene. And he IS a success - but there is a price to pay. Nothing lasts forever. As his writing ability begins to decline and publishers reject his books, he starts to drink. Sleeping badly, pacing around day and night, he gets a breakthrough. But is it? Pages of a novel pour out every night from the computer he's sure he's turned off and he doesn't remember doing the writing. He sets up a video to see what is going on - and sees ape-like shapes shuffling around. And the video shows HIM murdering a prostitute. What IS going on? Then his literary agent comes round and shows that his life is the price he pays for previous success.
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'Shaun Hutson is an expert in the art of keeping the reader turning the pages' - TIME OUT
Christopher Ward is a writer with a problem. He potters his lonely way about his huge house in the knowledge that his books are no longer selling as they did - he is an author who is deeply out of fashion. As he struggles with his latest novel, writer's block takes a deeper and deeper hold, and he turns to the comforts of alcohol in the attempt to blot out the growing problems. Yet suddenly the words flow, and we read his novel alongside the story of his struggle. But is Ward really writing it? He remembers nothing and mysterious shadows and lights in his office further deepen the mystery, as do the phone calls to prostitutes he can't remember making and the visits to the cinema he fails to recall. Is he losing his mind, or is something far more sinister happening? This offering from the prolific Hutson (over 40 books so far, in various guises) is a mixture of his horror and thriller writing, but the horror largely takes a back seat. For long stretches the book-within-a-book dominates and only towards the end does the more familiar Hutson emerge as he tries to drag the story back to Edgar Allan Poe territory. It's a hybrid in both name and nature, and Hutson's fans may be disappointed by the lack of gore. But it's still well worth reading for the cleverness of the plotting and the sheer page-turning compulsion of the climactic section. (Kirkus UK)
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Christopher Ward signed up with a literary agency on 12th December 1984 wanting to be SO rich it would be obscene. And he IS a success - but there is a price to pay. Nothing lasts forever. As his writing ability begins to decline and publishers reject his books, he starts to drink. Sleeping badly, pacing around day and night, he gets a breakthrough. But is it? Pages of a novel pour out every night from the computer he's sure he's turned off and he doesn't remember doing the writing. He sets up a video to see what is going on - and sees ape-like shapes shuffling around. And the video shows HIM murdering a prostitute. What IS going on? Then his literary agent comes round and shows that his life is the price he pays for previous success.
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