The Number One bestseller now out in paperback Jerome Burnel was once a hero He intervened to prevent multiple killings & in doing so damned himself His life was torn apart He was imprisoned brutalized But in his final days with the hunters circling he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker He speaks of the girl who was marked for death but was saved of the ones who tormented him & an entity that hides in a ruined stockade Parker is not like other men He died & was reborn He is ready to wage war Now he will descend upon a strange isolated community called the Cut & face down a force of men who rule by terror intimidation & murder All in the name of the being they serve All in the name of the Dead King' One of the writer's finest achievements new readers
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