Black Light
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- €3.99
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- €3.99
Publisher Description
If you have a supernatural problem that won't go away, you need Buck Carlsbad: private eye, exorcist, and last resort. Buck's got a way with spirits that no one else can match, and a lot of questions that only spirits can answer. Buck has spent years looking deep into the Blacklight on the other side of death, trying to piece together the mystery that destroyed his family and left him for dead. It's dangerous, but it's his only hope of finding out what happened to them - and what made him the way he is. But then Buck takes a call from a billionnaire, and finds himself working the most harrowing case of his career. One that will either reveal the shocking secrets of his life, or end it forever...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 2012, this uneven first novel from screenwriters Melton and Dunstan (the Saw movies), in collaboration with Romano (Safe in the Woods), stars ghost hunter Buck Carlsbad, who can ingest evil spirits (resorting to castor oil to expel them). Buck is more than a little concerned when he learns that plans for a new high-speed passenger train will take it straight through an area of California that he considers a bad place, connected as it is with the death or disappearance of his parents. Carlsbad ends up on the maiden voyage of the Jaeger Laser between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, hired to handle any supernatural bugs that may interfere with the megaevent. The A guest-list of his travel companions includes a charismatic presidential candidate considered a lock for the White House. Of course, things don't go smoothly. Fans of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden, who likewise battles occult forces, will find Buck lacks the strong personality that distinguishes Harry.
