Kolchak: The Night Stalker: A Black and Evil Truth

The first Kolchak original novel in almost 20 years!Carl Kolchak was just your average reporter until one day he put two and two together and came up with evil. A reluctant paranormal investigator, Kolchak couldn't stop tripping over the unusual even if he wanted to. And for all of his efforts of seeking the truth, unemployment and ridicule have followed him like the plague.Someone, or something, is tearing up people into little pieces in a small town in West Virginia. It's up to Kolchak to wade through the bloody-science jigsaw puzzle, while watching his back against an unseen foe. It's a cat and mouse game, as he battles a maelstorm of terror that everyone around him gets sucked into. No one is safe, not the police, the FBI, or that very attractive new woman in his life...There is a dark and sinister truth that will be revealed to Kolchak as to why him...if he can only live long enough to put the last horrifying clues together!

From Publishers Weekly

Henderson, best-known for his acclaimed Jack Hagee PI series, has written an entertaining horror novel featuring the beloved cult character of Carl Kolchak that opens more strongly than it finishes. Kolchak, who debuted in two novels by Jeff Rice, is best-known from the 1970s TV movies based on them, and a series starring Darren McGavin as the rumpled and rough-around-the-edges journalist who battles the forces of evil as well as the powers that be who seek to suppress the truth. In this novel, Kolchak's long-suffering edi-tor, Tony Vincenzo, dispatches the reporter to West Virginia to investigate a bizarre impossible murder that left a yogurt plant super-visor eviscerated. A cryptic warning delivered to Kolchak's motel raises his suspicions of a government conspiracy, and several more killings, including the massacre of an entire family, create an atmosphere of panic throughout the rural area. The set-up is more prom-ising than the resolution, but the spookiness of the opening sequences suggest Henderson could do better in a future volume, and may be the right author to continue the revised story of Kolchak featured in Frank Spotnits's acclaimed but short-lived 2005 remake. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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