Bring Me Flesh, I'll Bring Hell
A Horror Novel
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- ¥1,600
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Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son.
Vitus is horrified to discover the photo of the couple's missing son is a picture-perfect reproduction of his long dead son. This leads him to question the events of his tormented past; he must face the possibility that the wife and child he believed he murdered ten years ago in a zombie-fugue have somehow survived . . . or is it just wishful thinking designed to pull him into an elaborate trap?
Unfolding like a classic film noir mixed with elements of a B-movie, Bring Me Flesh, I'll Bring Hell is an imaginative spin on the hard-boiled detective genre and a new twist on the zombie novel. In Vitus Adamson, you will find a protagonist you can care about and invest in as he takes you through his emotional journey of betrayal and quest for redemption.
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Femmes fatales, double-crosses, and blood-spattered action characterize this hard-boiled homage to zombie fiction. Detective Vitus Adamson was turned into a zombie by his brother, and subsequently killed and ate his son and wife or so his brother tells him. Escaping into his work, Vitus agrees to find a couple's missing son, Owen, and stumbles into a maelstrom of self-doubt, sacrifice, and conspiracy with him at its chewy center because Owen resembles Vitus's son. After meeting Madame Astra, cult leader of the Lord of the Flesh-Eaters, Vitus is torn between guilt and love, and between false memories and foreshadowed tragedy. With a smoking gun and ravenous appetite, he struggles to rescue a victimized child amid a cataclysm of flesh and fanaticism. In this terrifying moral battleground, the dead are superior to the "black-suited men with dead eyes" orchestrating human affairs. Rose's debut achieves a unique, hard-edged voice strengthened by clipped prose. Horrifying action mingles with self-referential humor and bad attitude, and the explosive suspense mirrors emotionally intense conflicts. Fans of zombies and PIs will find Vitus's story gripping.
