The Hollow City
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3.7 • 25 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Dan Wells won instant acclaim for his three-novel debut about the adventures of John Wayne Cleaver, a heroic young man who is a potential serial killer. All who read the trilogy were struck by the distinctive and believable voice Wells created for John.
Now he returns with another innovative thriller told in a very different, equally unique voice. A voice that comes to us from the realm of madness.
Michael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That's bad enough. But what can he do if some of the monsters he sees turn out to be real?
Who can you trust if you can't even trust yourself? The Hollow City is a mesmerizing journey into madness, where the greatest enemy of all is your own mind.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An amnesiac paranoid schizophrenic holds the key to a serial killer's motivation in Wells's provocative new thriller. Michael Shipman is the ultimate unreliable narrator, tortured by his senses and afflicted with delusions about being pursued by Faceless Men. Now the authorities want to know whether Michael's Faceless Men are involved with the Red Line Killer, whose de-faced victims were associated with the Children of the Earth, a cult based in the former home of notorious murderer Milos Cerny the man who killed Michael's mother. When the Faceless Men start stalking Michael in the psychiatric hospital, he escapes to uncover the truth behind the killer, the cult, and his own shadowy childhood memories of a hollow city of empty houses. Wells (I Am Not a Serial Killer) has created an intense, uncanny protagonist who's trapped in an eerie world where denying the insane and otherworldly truth means death.
Customer Reviews
Loved it!
One of the best books I've read in a while. An easy read. Great story.
Jaw dropping
This book is one of the best books I ever read. Keep you wanting more and more and more. Just like the other books he wrote. Plus I have never read anything like it totally original to the fullest.
Long way around the tree
The author took forever to tell this story. 3/4 of the book were about the character's mental problems. Ok. We get it he's crazy and he sees things.....things no one else can. It's not until the last 50 or pages the story does something else.
The book can be summed thusly.
"You're crazy"
"No I'm not"
"Yes you are"
"No I'm not"
"Yes you are"
"No I'm not"
"You are right you're not"
"I'm not?"
The end.