Black Light
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3.4 • 7 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
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. He was normal, once. Until Something Horrible killed his parents and left him for dead.
Buck has spent years using his gift to trace his family. It's his only hope of finding out what happened to them-and what made him the way he is.
Now the voices say that something big is coming. Buck already knows what it is-a super high-tech bullet train running express across a stretch of unforgiving desert known for the most deadly paranormal events in history. A place where Buck almost died a few years ago, and where he swore he would never return.
But as the train prepares to rumble down the tracks, Buck knows it can only be the inevitable hand of fate pulling him back to the most harrowing unfinished case of his career at four hundred miles per hour.
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.
