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Fever House

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 “Exciting, suspenseful, horrifying, and written at a flurry-of-punches pace. Read Fever House now.”—STEPHEN KING

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: Dark-op government agents who have been desperately hunting for the hand are on Hutch’s tail, more of the city’s residents fall under its brutal influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of disaster. . . .

But it’s all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husband—suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment. Her son, Nick, has moved home to care for her, quietly making his living working for Hutch’s boss.

When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the hand, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life they’ve built. Mother and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents while exorcising family secrets that have risen from the dead—secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanity’s survival.

Can you resist the hand? Find an excerpt from the next Fever House novel, The Devil by Name, at the end of the book. Horror Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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Goes like an express train - great characters - reads part hard boiled crime, part 70s conspiracy, part occult, all horror - all the while the looming sense of bad coming. Unstoppable

Absolute cracker

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Really good story and the narration is excellent, catching the differences in each character. My only gripe is that it ends too quickly!

Great story, well told

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Keith Rosson’s genre blending Fever House is ambitious, wild, gritty, and at times darkly funny. Imagine Chris Carter wrote a cursed Pulp Fiction; episodic, conspiratorial, and apocalyptic. There are a lot of character POVs to get your head around which can take a bit of getting used to, but let it wash over you and you’ll soon slip in to the novel’s punk-metal rhythm.

The violence doesn’t hold back and comes out of nowhere, it feels unsafe, and the unresolved nature of what’s occurring will keep the pages turning. The only downside is that the lack of resolution plays out until the end, but I guess that’s what The Devil By Name will be for, and I for one, am in. Bold, batshit, brilliant.

“It is a quiet ride through the mouth of hell.”

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