Squall
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4.3 • 149 Ratings
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- £0.99
Publisher Description
Bush pilot and family man Tom Stokes is about to face the worst day of his life. On a clear winter morning, he sets out in his Cessna 180 to do some repairs on a remote hunt camp, leaving his five-year-old son and very pregnant wife snug in their beds.
On the return trip, a squall forces him into an emergency landing, and he winds up—quite literally—in the lap of petty criminal Dale Knight. Dale, now a fugitive from the law—and worse, from a merciless drug lord who just happens to be his brother—draws Tom into a web of mayhem and treachery that puts not only his life at risk, but the lives of his wife, son…and unborn child.
SQUALL is a fast-paced, darkly-comic tale of murder and gang-style retribution that grabs the reader on page one and simply does not let go.
PRAISE FOR COSTELLO'S PREVIOUS NOVELS
HERE AFTER
"Costello…keeps the action moving and the suspense ratcheted up tight."
—Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail
EDEN'S EYES
"The best horror novel I've read since Stephen King's own Pet Sematary. …Costello knows how to tantalize his readers, priming them for the horrors to come…"
—Rave Reviews
THE CARTOONIST
"A wonderful blend of horror, psychology and the power of suggestion that leaves you guessing right up to the very end!"
—The New Jersey Grapevine
CAPTAIN QUAD
"Sean Costello is one of the horror genre's brightest new stars, and…Captain Quad will only enhance his position."
—Other Realms
Customer Reviews
Holiday Read
Good,enjoyable,not too long,interesting right from start
Superb cessna plane crash
For a fairly short novel, the story was absolutely gripping! Fantastic description of an unusual plane crash, as well as a birthing scene to make anyone faint.
An intense thriller, with a bit of compassion.
Brilliant and captive writing and cant wait to read more of the authors novels.
Fun read.
I really enjoyed it. It has some elements that require a liberal dose of suspension of disbelief but the entertainment in those moments helps. On a political notes, the two female characters are very active and decisive in how the story pans out. The conversations have a snappy thriller movie dialogue flavour (as a filmmaker I'd readily adapt this novel). The writer paints cool "stranger than fiction" events that provoke imagination. It's generally simple as a story, it doesn't drag at all. I'm summation; fun, quick and witty if a little improbable, just a little.