 | | Michael Slade | | RED SNOW | | Penguin Canada | | $24 CDN trade paperback | | 210 x 133mm | 336 pages | ISBN 9780143167792 | | Release Date : 29 December, 2009 | | Reviews"Michael Slade's books are blood-chilling, spine-tingling, gut-wrenching,stomach-churning, and a much closer look at the inside of a maniac's brain than mostpeople would find comfortable--but always riveting." - Diana Gabaldon, the # 1 NewYork Times bestselling author of the Outlander series. "RED SNOW is crisply-written, sly and exciting. Michael Slade is a writer whoclearly knows how to tell a story and make it real. A warning: it's not for thesqueamish, or for those who suffer from chionophobia (the fear of snow, red orotherwise)." - Robert McCammon, New York Times bestselling author of SWAN SONG,BOY'S LIFE, and the Matthew Corbett series. "As always with Slade, a cracking good detective story; he gives shock horror a chilling new dimension - I'll never look at the Winter Olympics in quite the same way after reading RED SNOW!" - Anne Perry, Britain's queen of historical detective fiction, the bestselling William Monk and Thomas Pitt series. "RED SNOW is Michael Slade in top form with his trademarked relentless pacing andone of the most ingenious and unsettling murder weapons ever imagined." - F. PaulWilson, New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series. "RED SNOW is another Slade Slam-dunk! Michael Slade's genius lies in being able toscare his readers to death by showing them, with perfect clarity, the terrifyingbanality of true evil, injecting psychotic nightmares into humdrum, everydayreality." - Jack Whyte, bestselling author of the Camulod Chronicles, the Templartrilogy, and the forthcoming Guardians series. |
The 2010 Winter Olympics are coming to Vancouver, and Mephisto is ready to strike. Of all the villains lawyer Michael Slade has created based on his experience in more than one hundred real-life murder cases, Mephisto is the maddest. ("Slade knows psychos inside out."— Toronto Star) A raging winter storm and a team of mercenaries have cut Whistler Mountain off from the rest of the world. Bent on bloody revenge, Mephisto attacks the members of Special X—the psycho hunters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—and that's just the start of his horrific plan. Red Snow is a three-ring circus of mystery, horror, and suspense. It has everything: whodunits and impossible crimes, psychological terror and police procedure. Let the games begin!
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