When eighteen year old high school senior Eddie Senna drives down a long-abandoned logging trail with his girlfriend, all he’s looking for is a little privacy.What he finds instead is a horror beyond all imagination. Because the logging trail ends just behind the Tamerlane Research Facility, a super-secret lab where experiments in animal neural conditioning are being conducted.And the animals … conducted.
And the animals have gotten loose.
And they’re far more intelligent – and far more deadly – than anyone realizes.
After an unthinkable tragedy, it falls to Eddie’s girlfriend Alicia and older brother Rob to undertake a desperate search for answers. But a very powerful person is determined to cover up the details of the tragedy.
That person is vicious and amoral.
And he’s closing in on Alicia and Rob…
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Praise for Allan Leverone:
”…it will keep you up, and on the edge of your chair, long into the night.” — Nashua NH Sunday Telegraph
”…a sure-footed, masterful thriller with a breakneck pace that never lets up…I loved this book!” — J. Carson Black, New York Times bestselling author of THE SHOP and ICON
“Suspenseful and well-written…” — Debbi Mack, New York Times bestselling author of IDENTITY CRISIS and LEAST WANTED
“Written with edge-of-your-seat suspense and precise detail…The successor to Michael Crichton has landed. And his name is Allan Leverone.” — Vincent Zandri, bestselling author of the Dick Moonlight series
“Allan Leverone raises the stakes with every turn of the page…” — Sophie Littlefield, Anthony Award-winning author of A BAD DAY FOR SORRY
”…a high-suspense thrill ride…” — Derry (NH) News
”…a must have for anyone looking for a great page turner with mystery and mayhem.” — Community Bookstop
”…a spectacular thrill ride…with lots of action, danger, hold-your-breath suspense…this is definitely one you don’t want to miss out on!” — Life in Review
”…sexy, sophisticated…with all the intensity of THE LONELY MILE” — CJ West, author of THE END OF MARKING TIME
”…a rocking read from start to finish!” — Ian Graham, author of PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS and VEIL OF CIVILITY
“Allan Leverone delivers a taut crime drama full of twists and conspiracy…” — Scott Nicholson, Amazon bestselling author of LIQUID FEAR and THE RED CHURCH
“A scorching supernatural thriller – Allan Leverone…is a writer on the rise…” — Mark Edward Hall, author of APOCALYPSE ISLAND and SERVANTS OF DARKNESS
“A tense, tightly-plotted thriller that will keep you turning pages into the night.” — Christopher Allan Poe, author of THE PORTAL
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Allan Leverone is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nearly twenty novels, as well as a 2012 Derringer Award winner for excellence in short mystery fiction and a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee. He lives in Londonderry, NH with his wife of more than thirty years, with three grown children and two beautiful grandchildren. Learn more at Facebook, Twitter (@AllanLeverone), and at www.allanleverone.com.
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I usually don’t read “animals gone wrong” books so this wasn’t on my TBR. Then I received a copy of it in the mail from Silver Shamrock publishing. I settled in that night and began reading it. Wow! This guy can write! I haven’t read anything by him before but man! Your pulled right into the story and you just can’t stop reading. The action hits and it’s the kind of book you keep reading until you just can’t keep your eyes open anymore. It’s intense and suspenseful. What’s going to happen next?! The wolves are more of a background, lurking threat that is slowly closing in. Most of the action takes place between a character and military official that is in charge of the research facility.
I read this in 6 days, over my long Thanksgiving holiday. Like I said, I haven’t read anything else by Allan Leverone but that has got to change! Thank you Silver Shamrock for the opportunity to review this and discover a new (to me) author!
Silver Shamrock has really done a great job of bringing new and exciting writers to readers attention while also featuring the veterans who we have already grown to love.
As a big-time fan of wolf/werewolf books as well as secret lab-based plots, I was excited to dive into this one. The synopsis was intriguing. A facility on the outskirts of town is modifying wolves to control them. I was hooked and dove in.
What I liked: The opening of this one was fantastic. We got to see a controlled test being done within the facility as well as a heart-pounding (if not done over and over again) scene where two teens head out into the middle of nowhere to get handsy and be alone. Being a horror book, of course something interrupts them. I loved the book, but truthfully, only up until this point. From here I no longer connected nor found it engaging.
What I didn’t like: Sadly, from the point where our female character enters the police station on, I just struggled to engage and enjoy the book. The dialog and interaction between the sheriff and the girl not only came off as forced but also set off every foreshadowing redflag ever. I knew exactly what was to come from that moment on and it unfolded as planned. I also found, even for a shorter book, there were spots that became really repetitive. To share a specific moment, when we read about the designer/project leaders history and working up to this moment with the wolves, it became a pattern of the same paragraphs over and over, just reworded or shuffled around.
Why you should buy this: I did not have a fun time with this. Saying that, the gore was great, the project intriguing and the setting was a lot of fun. What didn’t work for me may very well be the reason this becomes one of your own all-time fav books. In this case, I would label this an ok read, but one that if you’re on the fence, you may want to deep dive into a number of reviews and see if something clicks to make you take the leap.