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Cover Reveal for THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK

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Today, horror blog Night Worms published the cover reveal for my cult horror novel THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK, coming November 2020 from Hachette Book Group.

David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. As children, they survived a religious group’s horrific last days at the isolated mountain Red Peak. Years later, the trauma of what they experienced never feels far behind.

When a fellow survivor commits suicide, they finally reunite and share their stories. Long-repressed memories surface, defying understanding and belief. Why did their families go down such a dark road? What really happened on that final night?

The answers lie buried at Red Peak. But truth has a price, and escaping a second time may demand the ultimate sacrifice.

Night Worms invited me to offer some comments about the cover. Here they are:

I worked with Lisa Marie Pompilio on the cover of Orbit’s OUR WAR, a novel about a modern civil war in America, and was absolutely blown away by the final product. When I heard I’d be working with her again on the upcoming release of THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK, I was very excited. She didn’t disappoint. The cover portrays wilderness, which is on the nose in terms of where a fair portion of the novel takes place but also figurative of mystery, the past, and a spiritual journey from pain to truth. The upside-down world, dead trees, and trailing sliver of blood screams corruption, danger, and tragedy. What is hiding there? What is the price of finding out?

THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK is about the human search for meaning and the dark side of finding it. In the novel, a group of adults reunite to confront the childhood years they spent in a religious community that degenerated into a violent cult. Tragedy broke them apart and will bring them back together to ask the questions: What really happened that last horrible night in the wilderness at the base of Red Peak? What waits for them on its summit? To find out, they will have to journey across a different kind of wilderness of time and trauma and return to make the same ultimate choice that faced their parents long ago.

Stay tuned!

ARMOR #5: REICH’S FALL Released!

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The fifth and final episode of ARMOR, my WW2 tank warfare series, is now available to read in Kindle and paperback!

In ARMOR #5: REICH’S FALL, the Allies have contained the Ardennes Offensive and resume their drive across the Siegfried Line, while the Red Army batters its way toward Berlin.

Having survived the horrors of the Bulge, five veteran tankers manning an Easy Eight Sherman fight to the Elbe River and beyond in the war’s final months. They know the only way home lies through Berlin—or in a box. One by one, they will meet their destinies in the slaughterhouse of the falling Third Reich.

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Check out the complete ARMOR series here. The omnibus and audiobook drop in June.

THE RETREAT 4: ALAMO Now Available in Audiobook!

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I’m pleased to announce my apocalyptic horrorfest THE RETREAT 4: ALAMO, part of THE RETREAT series I co-authored with Stephen Knight and Joe McKinney, is now available on audiobook, narrated by the great RC Bray!

Description:

During the long retreat out of Philadelphia, First Battalion arrives at High Point Special Facility, the Alamo of the U.S. government. Lt. Colonel Lee secures the fort built around the facility but learns of an outbreak in the underground bunker, where the U.S. government is hiding. The President has been infected.

While thousands of laughing infected lay siege to the facility, Sergeant Muldoon, Corporal Rawlings, and a platoon of lightfighters go deep into the bowels of the earth on a deadly mission: terminate the President of the United States.

The President is waiting.

If you like brutal survival horror and military versus zombies action, this is the series for you.

Get it here or at Audible.

COMPLEX by Brian Keene

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Brian Keene’s COMPLEX is thrilling survival horror. While it’s short on answers, it’s a lot of fun, a nice pulpy escape.

The novel follows a series of people living in a low-end apartment complex, including a mom and her son newly arrived to the complex, two potheads hiding out after a score, a writer at the end of his career and rope, a transsexual, a tough old lady, a Vietnam vet, and others. The wide cast find themselves in the midst of a bizarre apocalypse, as naked people flood the complex bent on sadism, torture, and slaughter of anything living. Thrown together by circumstance, these people must fight to survive the night.

The madmen are great, tribal and deranged and utterly homicidal, like something from the brutal world of CROSSED or GHOSTS OF MARS. Led by a large brute they nickname Tick Tock, they scour the complex and the town, searching for the living while our heroes suffer, struggle, fight, and sometimes die, delivering plenty of action. As for our heroes, they’re likeable, tough, and resourceful, though their best is no match for the invading horde.

Some might take exception to a lack of answers by the end, but overall, I thought it was a lot of fun, which I’d guess was Keene’s sole intent.

ARMOR #4: THE BULGE Released!

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The fourth episode of ARMOR, my WW2 tank warfare series, is now available to read in Kindle and paperback!

In ARMOR #4: THE BULGE, the Allies have chased the Wehrmacht across France, where the grand advance stalls due to supply problems and prepares for winter. But Hitler has in mind one last gamble to end the war on Germany’s Western front: the Ardennes counteroffensive, the last blitzkrieg.

Worn out by years of difficult campaigning, the veteran tankers manning a Sherman Easy Eight depart the siege of Aachen for rest, refit, and training. As panzers burst through the American lines in the Ardennes Forest, these men will enter a desperate fight against both the German Army and the brutal winter—a fight in which victory is defined as mere survival. The Battle of the Bulge.

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Check out the complete ARMOR series here. The omnibus and audiobook drop in June.

ARMOR #3: FORTRESS EUROPE Released Today

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The third episode of ARMOR, my new WW2 tank warfare series, is now available to read in Kindle and paperback!

In ARMOR #3: FORTRESS EUROPE, the Allies have captured Sicily and invaded Italy, and are now ready to assault Hitler’s Atlantic Wall in France.

Landing on D-Day, five veterans of armored warfare brave the horrors of Omaha Beach only to find themselves caught in the deathtraps of the Norman bocage. In the desperate assault against Fortress Europe, they will no longer fight for victory but simple survival against an entrenched, determined enemy—and an even greater enemy in their midst.

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The complete ARMOR series consists of five episodes and is releasing between February and May. Check out the complete series here. The omnibus and audiobook drop in June.