The cover, the interior design, lay-out formatting. if nothing else to chart the growth of this Nick Cutter Character.'įirst things first. I think this is a must read for serious horror fans. The ending was not as strong as the build-up but it is impossible to discuss without spoilers. If there was a short fall for me was my interest in what was happening on the surface with the global disease, but I understand it was irrelevant to the story. In 2015 The Deep 'I found myself turning pages and feeling invested in the story. Horror readers will be very happy with this one.' The King influence is one the author wore on his sleeve, and was found as much in the strong children characters as it was in the horror elements. 'I thought it was an effective and disturbing horror novel that made the best of a lean prose style. In 2014 I reviewed the Cutter Debut The Troop. Look it is impossible to avoid a little hype when your books come with blurbs from names like Scott Smith (the Ruins) and light weights like Clive Barker and some guy named Stephen King. As if he is Clark Kent going into a phone booth and coming out Nick Cutter. For whatever reason Craig Davidson is considered high literature, but Cutter is genre. It seems Cutter is determined to carry the torch for Bentley Little on novels titled The _. Nick Cutter is a not so secret pen name for author Craig Davidson whose first two books The Troop, and The Deep were very popular in horror fiction circles. The clock is ticking towards doomsday for the Chosen of New Bethlehem. If Murtag doesn't get things sorted out, the Divine Council will dispatch The Quints, aka: Heaven's Own Bagmen. When a string of bombings paralyzes the city, religious fanatics are initially suspected, but startling clues point to a far more ominous perpetrator.

Murtag realizes that you can rob a citizenry of almost anything, but you can't take away its faith. Murtag's got problems - one of his partners is a zealot, and he's in love with the other one.

His job: eradicate all heretical religious faiths, their practitioners, and artefacts. Published May 2015 by ChiZine Publications 'Jonah Murtag is an Acolyte on the New Bethlehem police force.

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