Blood Fugue - Couverture souple

D’Lacey, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907773371 ISBN 13 : 9781907773372

Editeur : Salt Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Reclusive outdoorsman, Jimmy Kerrigan, finds himself battling a vampiric plague which threatens to destroy Hobson's Valley, the isolated mountain community he calls home. When his family, friends and neighbours fall prey to the 'Fugue', Kerrigan is the only one who can save them and prevent the disease spreading beyond the remote town's boundaries. Kerrigan is uniquely equipped to deal with the outbreak. He carries a variant strain of Fugue enabling him to overcome and heal its victims. However, the nature of the illness ensures neither he nor those he hunts down are aware they're infected. After feeding on humans, the diseased forget their behaviour. Even Kerrigan, having confronted or neutralised a Fugue, is unable to recall his actions as guardian of Hobson's Valley. The illness and its effects have, like tetanus, survived in the earth around the mountain for countless generations. The lineage of Fugue Hunters has always been able to reverse an outbreak but not this time; someone wants the disease to spread and, in combination with a mutation of the virus, Kerrigan realises he may not be strong enough to contain it. Kerrigan is challenged beyond his limits when an innocent family of outsiders hikes straight into a wilderness crawling with Fugues - a wilderness he is responsible for. Can he really save them and protect the town? Can he defeat the creature who has caused the Fugue to mutate? And, most crucially, when he learns the horrifying truth about his own infection, will he even have the strength to try?

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Jimenez family arrives in Hobson's Valley, a dead end town in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, looking for the last resting place of an ancestor. They ask directions from Jimmy Kerrigan, a reclusive outdoorsman who lives near the wilderness. The Jimenez family go missing in the forest without a trace and Jimmy sets out to find them. Only he has the power to destroy Fugues, creatures which prey on the people of his isolated mountain community. But what if that same power makes Kerrigan more of a monster than those he hunts?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Salt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1907773371
• ISBN 13: 9781907773372
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272