Platforms

This is the author's first novel. It was also published in the UK, France, Japan and Norway."A spellbinding thriller"Fort Wayne News Sentinal"Spine-tingling"Booklist"A real page-turner...not for the faint-hearted."Greenwich TimePLATFORMSRiverside, Connecticut, 06878. A commuter town, like a thousand others. But something is terribly wrong in Riverside. A man, dead by his own hand months before, shows up to catch his morning train. A woman who died in her jogging suit is jogging again through the streets near the railroad station. And Halloran sees them, thses and others. The pain starts and he sees them. He hears them warning him in voices that seem to come from the pain itself: Stay away from this station, Peter. This station kills. Something is growing there, something deadly. A malevolent presence that is slowly draining an entire community of all that is decent. Enveloping it - drawing it into a frightening and lonely world that somehow bridges life and death. Jennifer Wilde has seen it before in other towns like Riverside. Perhaps this time none of the living or the dead will be lost. This time is different. The man, Halloran, can see the dead and speak to them. If only Halloran will help...if only she can persuade Halloran that the madness is not within him...if only he won't learn of the price he might pay before it's too late to turn back. Platforms is much more than a riveting, entertaining thriller. It is a penetrating study of the capacity of the human mind and the probable survival of the human spirit, weaving these into a haunting, terrifying novel that will leave the reader emotionally spent - and yet curiously glad to have shared it...

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