BLURB:
Resuscitated
after he drowns and dies in a flood, David Flint discovers he has
returned from the other side with an uncanny ability: He can “jump”
into people’s bodies and minds, and control their thoughts and
actions.
David
believes it's a gift, and wants to use it to help people. Then four
members of a ruthless drug ring savagely attack his fiancée and
leave her in a coma, and David tries to use his new power to destroy
the whole ring. But the ringleader, a voodoo priest known as the
Zombie Master, is a formidable man with a deadly secret: He has the
same incredible ability as David.
When
the two human marionette masters clash in a brutal bloody showdown,
using the ring’s members as their puppets, David discovers he’s
battling for much more than his life—he’s fighting to rid the
world of an evil human abomination.
Marionettes
illuminates the greatest achievements of the human spirit and the
darkest corridors of our minds, and answers the age-old question:
What are the consequences of absolute power?
Excerpt
:
My whole
life changed after I drowned and died in the flood.
Upon my
resurrection, I thought I was dreaming. My head felt fuzzy. A little
man inside it was drilling away at my brain with a tiny but immensely
effective jackhammer. My mouth felt like it was glued shut, my tongue
ten times normal size and made of sandpaper. A crew of little men
sliced furrows in my throat with dull rusty swords, cackling merrily
as they destroyed my trachea.
Some
sadistic bastard apparently burned a branding iron into my corneas.
It was
far worse than any hangover I ever had—and I’d had some doozies
since Karin died and left me alone, lost, and unmoored in a callous
world.
When I
woke, the acrid tang of antiseptic mixing with an unpleasant odor
stung my nostrils. Through a crimson haze, I saw a pretty nurse gaze
down at me and smile. She looked like an angel.
“Hi,
David!” she sang, her perfect white teeth gleaming as if lit from
within. “Welcome back.” She caressed my face with a warm hand,
glanced at some monitoring equipment beside the bed I lay in, and
turned and hit a switch behind me. “Laura, page Dr. Yamaguchi. Mr.
Flint’s awake.”
The
angel turned back to me. “I bet you’re thirsty. We’ll fix that
shortly, okay? After the doctor sees you, maybe we can give you some
ice chips.”
I shut
my eyes to block out the combined glare of her smile and the overhead
fluorescence. When I opened them again, an attractive Asian woman in
her forties with close-cropped black hair streaked with gray stood
over me. Her brow wrinkled, a tentative smile curling the corners of
her lips upward.
“Welcome
back, Mr. Flint,” she said. “I’m Dr. Yamaguchi. You’re lucky
to be alive. It’s a miracle the couple who brought you in were able
to resuscitate you. We almost lost you twice last night. Apparently
you lead a charmed existence. Don’t try to speak yet.”
I tried
anyway, but couldn’t. The miniature swordsmen in my throat were
having a blast trying to cut their way out. I nodded, then grimaced
as the movement made the mad Lilliputian with the jackhammer pound
more little holes in my brain. I shut my eyes again and drifted off.
It was
all surreal. I remembered my name and profession, but I couldn’t
remember what happened to me. Every time I strained for the memory,
it receded while raging torrents of dark waters overwhelmed me.
Consciousness
was an assault upon my senses. But in what I initially mistook for
dreams, my perception and sense of taste, touch, and smell were
immaculate.
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Colleagues
and readers have dubbed Kerry Alan Denney The Reality Bender. The
multiple award-winning author of the paranormal thrillers
Dreamweavers (Juju Mojo Publications, August 2015) and Soulsnatcher
(Juju Mojo Publications, April 2014), the post-apocalyptic sci-fi/
horror thriller Jagannath (Permuted Press, February 2015), and
numerous short stories published online and in anthologies, Kerry
blends elements of the supernatural, paranormal, sci-fi, fantasy, and
horror in his work: speculative fiction at its wildest and craziest.
With joy, malicious glee, and a touch of madness, he writes
reality-bending thrillers, even when the voices don’t compel him
to. His protagonists are his children, and he loves them as dearly as
he despises his antagonists... even when he has to kill them.
On July
24, 2015, Jagannath became a #1 Amazon bestseller. On March 31, 2015,
Soulsnatcher won 2nd Place as 2014 Book of the Year in The Drunken
Druid’s International Book Award competition. Jagannath and
Soulsnatcher each received a rave blurb from New York Times
bestselling author James Rollins.
Kerry
lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia with his golden retriever Holly
Jolly, a veteran professional Therapy Dog, where he is currently
writing his next supernatural thriller... and deciding who to kill in
it.
Be on
the lookout for Kerry’s new post-apocalyptic/ paranormal thriller A
Mighty Rolling Thunder, coming December 3, 2016 from Burning Willow
Press.
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ReplyDeleteIf you could have given your characters one piece of advice before the opening pages of the book, what would it be and why?
ReplyDeleteHi Mai... I would warn them NOT to go into that dark basement/ cave/ tunnel/ alley alone and unarmed, lol.
DeleteSeriously, I would tell them to be themselves, and take on lives of their own. In that way, the characters and the story practically write themselves, and I'm merely a worldly conduit for my muse to dictate the story for me to translate into words. :)
Do you ever suffer from writer’s block and, if so, how do you overcome it?
ReplyDeleteHi Peggy, and thanks for your question. I always have so many story ideas swimming around in my head that I rarely suffer from writer's block. It's more like I occasionally "get stuck," and it's usually short-termed.
DeleteWhen I do get stuck, I don my Editor's Hat, and go to town editing either what I'm currently writing or another work-in-progress. There's really no end to the work to make a story come out just right. Something always needs fixing or improving.
Once I've spent some quality time editing, my muse always kicks back in, and I'm writing new stuff again.
Thanks for asking, and if you haven't already picked up your copy of MARIONETTES, I hope you do... and find out how smooth and flowing the work is after a few hundred thorough edits. I'm confident you'll enjoy it!
Thank you for the chance to win :)
ReplyDeleteGood Morning and thank you for this opportunity you have given us to win
ReplyDeleteSounds very interesting. Thanks for sharing the excerpt and the giveaway chance.
ReplyDeleteThanks to The Book Review for featuring me and MARIONETTES today!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the excerpt :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new book and good luck on the book tour!
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