The DEADENDERS: A Thriller

FROM ACCLAIMED HORROR AND MYSTERY WRITER BRUCE JONES! It starts with a dog. A dog in Richard’s story. Then a dog-monster in his basement, ready to rip out his throat… In this remarkable literary horror thriller by renowned writer Bruce Jones, four men, led by failed screenwriter Richard Denning, come together in middle age in their hometown of Topeka, Kansas, to face a childhood trauma that has haunted them since the day it happened forty years earlier. Richard, Maze, Scroogie and Shivers, a gang of twelve year old best friends who called themselves “The Deadenders”, made a secret pact, a supernatural pact, a pact that would result in murder and one that would trigger a haunting by a monster so grotesque and unreal that the four of them find themselves locked in a web of betrayal and mistrust as each is forced to face the nightmare alone. Richard is dying, his sex life with his beautiful wife is dying, and just as he discovers his first tender love has never forgotten him, an occult demon from the past rears up to terrorize all The Deadenders as one by one they remember The Truth—The Truth they have hidden away in the deepest, darkest recesses of their minds. With the scope of Stephen King and the imagination of Dean Koontz, Bruce Jones enters a world where nothing is real and no one can be trusted, not even your best friend…

About the Author

BRUCE JONES is the author/artist of nine previous novels including (under the pseudonym Bruce Elliot) the bestselling STILL LIFE, plus numerous screenplays, teleplays and graphic novels. Jones won the Upcoming Author of the Year award from the Bertelsman Book Club. He lives with his wife, novelist and screenwriter April Campbell Jones, and their dogs Pete and Lily. The Joneses spend their time in the ethers between Los Angeles and the Midwest.

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