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( The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil through the means you would expect: counselling, contemplation, candid discussion and even prayer - not to mention booze, drugs, clandestine liaisons and as much partying as they can get away with. Not so far away, the commanders of a top-secret military experiment, long-since spiralled out of control, fear they may have literally unleashed the forces of Hell. Two very different worlds are on a collision course, and will clash in an earthly battle between science and the supernatural, philosophy and faith, civilisation and savagery. The bookies are offering evens.
Little, Brown Book Group (UNITED KINGDOM) | |
2009 | |
9781408700600 | |
HARDBACK - 352 Pages |
Average rating (2 reviews)
Good but not great.
dknoxuk | 30/08/2009 | See all dknoxuk's reviews (1) »
Lets get this straight i am a huge Brookemyre fan and wait relentlessly for his new release generally each year. With this book Brookemyre had decided to tread new ground instead of his usual and extremely succesful recipe of crime / comedy he takes a stab at abit more fantasy although still based in his native Scotland. The book is good but i found the first 100-150 pages painfully slow and its wasnt until the last 7 chapters or so that i really got into the book. it still had great moments of humour and brookemyres sharp wit but if you have never read brookemyre before dont start with this one. Check out "boiling a frog", "sacred art of stealing" or "be my enemy" and i'm sure you'll be hooked - i just hope that with the next release he goes back to what he does best
Not his best, but great nonetheless.
RevScapegoat | 18/08/2009 | See all RevScapegoat's reviews (1) »
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- Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
- All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
- A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
- One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
- A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
- Quite Ugly One Morning
- A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away
- A Snowball In Hell
- Country of the Blind
- Not the End of the World
- A Snowball in Hell
- Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
- The Sacred Art of Stealing
- Boiling a Frog
- Quite Ugly One Morning
- Be My Enemy
- Boiling a Frog
- The Sacred Art of Stealing
- Be My Enemy
