He Wears The Dead - Couverture souple

Amiras, Wind

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798233311635

Editeur : April Mae Berza, 2026

Synopsis

They found Henry Pell in a fog-choked alley, his face removed with impossible precision-no blood, no struggle, no trace of the killer. Only a witness who described the departing figure as "someone wearing another man's walk."

That was the first body. It would not be the last.

In the gaslit streets of Greyveil, a phantom is consuming the city one identity at a time. The locals call him Black Joe-a tall, long-coated figure who is never seen twice with the same face. A dockworker's uncle, glimpsed in the fog, though he lives three hundred miles away. A ferryman's familiar route, suddenly navigated wrong. A clerk's breakfast habits, unaccountably changed.

Inspector Edgar Halvorn has spent fourteen years hunting the worst of humanity. He knows how killers think. But this case defies every rule of investigation-because the monster he's tracking doesn't just murder. It replaces. It learns its victims from the inside, wears their faces, their voices, their walk, and then discards them like old clothes when a new identity is needed.

As Halvorn unravels the pattern, he discovers a chain of stolen selves stretching back further than anyone knows-and a terrifying truth: the thing he hunts has no original face. It is only what it has taken.

And it has just begun to study him.

When Halvorn's oldest friend begins behaving strangely-asking questions he should know, standing at windows as if memorising the city-the inspector faces an impossible choice: trust the man he's known for thirty years, or accept that the person he loves most may already be dead, walking in stolen skin.

HE WEARS THE DEAD is a haunting work of literary horror that asks: What remains of a person when everything that made them is erased? Inspired by real unsolved mysteries-the Somerton Man, Kaspar Hauser, the Bilderberg Group-this is a novel that will make you question every familiar face, every trusted voice, and the very nature of identity itself.

Because the monster is patient. It has been walking among us for centuries. And it is wearing a face you would recognise.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wind Amiras writes psychological and literary fiction that explores identity, love, grief, and the subtle ways people shape each other over time. Spanning thriller, horror, and mystery, his stories circle around a deceptively simple question: what does it truly mean to know someone - or even yourself - in a world where who we are can quietly shift, fracture, or be rewritten?

He is drawn to the dark edges of human experience - the fears we don't name, the secrets we bury, and the unsettling feeling that something, just beneath the surface, is not quite right.

Beyond fiction, Wind writes on lifestyle, health, and personal growth, translating complex ideas into accessible insights through eBooks and articles.

Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, he is an entrepreneur whose work has always required the same instinct that drives his fiction: the habit of looking beneath the surface and asking why. That curiosity - precise, patient, resistant to easy answers - shapes everything he writes.

Deliberate. Layered. Always reaching for something truer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: April Mae Berza
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798233311635
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 74
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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