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ISBN: 9781842433065
Price: £18.99
Casing: Hardback
Format: Royal (234 x 156mm)
Extent: 304pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: October 2008

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jack O'Connell is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, which have earned him something of a cult status. His work has been praised by James Ellroy, George Pelecanos, Nail Gaiman, Katherine Dunn and Jonathan Carroll, among others. He won the 1990 Mysterious Press Discovery Contest for the Best First Crime Novel for Box Nine, and is also the author of Word Made Flesh, Wireless and The Skin Palace. All have been published by No Exit in the UK.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

SIGNED, NUMBERED, 1000 COPY LIMITED EDITION

Your only child is lost between this world and the next, and more than anything you want him back. A controversial doctor and a mysterious stranger claim they have the answer. Who do you trust? Are you willing to risk everything? Are you prepared to enter Limbo?

Part classic noir thriller, part mind-bending fantasy, The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. It is the story of Sweeney, a druggist by trade, and his son, Danny, the victim of an accident that has left him in a persistent coma. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding, fortress-like Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have 'resurrected' other patients who were lost in the void. What Sweeney comes to realize, however, is that the real cure for his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a fantasy comic book world into which his son had been drawn at the time of his accident. Plunged into the intrigue that envelops the clinic, Sweeney's search for answers leads to sinister back alleys, brutal dead ends, and terrifying corners of darkness and mystery.

With The Resurrectionist, Jack O'Connell has crafted a breakout thriller that's gripping, suspenseful, and all-out heart-pounding.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'A brilliantly tuned, mesmerizing labyrinth of a quasi-real world as only a master artist could draw it.' - James Ellroy

'Jack O'Connell has riffed on language, fire-cleansed genre conventions, and stripped the artifice from the modern noir novel, creating a body of work both exciting and entirely original.' - George Pelecanos

'A masterpiece, O'Connell's tour de force has a dose of the uncertainty of Kafka, the fantasy of Bradbury, the crisp prose of Greene, and the noir of Chandler.' - Andrew Gulli, The Strand Magazine