Scott Sigler reinvented the alien-invasion story in his bestselling novels Infected and Contagious… rebooted the biotech thriller in Ancestor…now, in his most ambitious, sweeping novel to date, he works his magic on the paranormal thriller, taking us inside a terrifying underworld of subterranean predators that only his twisted mind could invent.
Homicide detective Bryan Clauser is losing his mind.
How else to explain the dreams he keeps having—dreams that mirror, with impossible accuracy, the gruesome serial murders taking place all over San Francisco? How else to explain the feelings these dreams provoke in him—not disgust, not horror, but excitement?
As Bryan and his longtime partner, Lawrence “Pookie” Chang, investigate the murders, they learn that things are even stranger than they at first seem. For the victims are all enemies of a seemingly ordinary young boy—a boy who is gripped by the same dreams that haunt Bryan. Meanwhile, a shadowy vigilante, seemingly armed with superhuman powers, is out there killing the killers. And Bryan and Pookie’s superiors—from the mayor on down—seem strangely eager to keep the detectives from discovering the truth.
Doubting his own sanity and stripped of his badge, Bryan begins to suspect that he’s stumbled into the crosshairs of a shadow war that has gripped his city for more than a century—a war waged by a race of killers living in San Francisco’s unknown, underground ruins, emerging at night to feed on those who will not be missed.
And as Bryan learns the truth about his own intimate connections to the killings, he discovers that those who matter most to him are in mortal danger…and that he may be the only man gifted—or cursed—with the power to do battle with the nocturnals.
Featuring a dazzlingly plotted mystery and a terrifying descent into a nightmarish underworld—along with some of the most incredible action scenes ever put to paper, and an explosive, gut-wrenching conclusion you won’t soon forget—Nocturnal is the most spectacular outing to date from one of the genre’s brightest stars.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9780307952752
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 08/01/2013
Año de edición: 2013
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Scott Sigler
Scott Sigler nació y se crió en Michigan. Heredó de su padre el amor por las películas clásicas de terror y de su madre, profesora de escuela, el interés por la lectura. Sigler escribió su primera historia de monstruos, Tentáculos, a los ocho años. Se graduó en periodismo y publicidad y fue recolector de fruta, reportero de deportes, responsable de marketing para una empresa de software y vendedor de guitarras, antes de crear su propia web y autopublicar sus libros en formato podcast (audio). Sigler reinventó el concepto de edición al convertir Earthcore en la primera novela publicada únicamente en podcast. Ofrecida en 20 episodios semanales, Earthcore, que ha conseguido 10.000 suscriptores, recupera la tradición de los seriales radiofónicos. Los fans de Sigler, conocidos como «junkies», han hecho cerca de siete millones de descargas de sus historias y son los responsables de que su novela Ancestor, publicada en papel por una pequeña editorial independiente y lanzada al mercado sin campaña de marketing ni cobertura de los medios, se convirtiera en número uno en la lista de más vendidos de Amazon.com