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    The Chosen Child: compulsive horror from a true master

    By Graham Masterton

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    A murderous creature with the face of an angel.

    Sarah Leonard is supervising the construction of an international hotel in post-Cold War Warsaw. If the job doesn't come in on time and under budget, Sarah will be out of a job.

    Shockingly, a headless body is discovered in a sewer tunnel at the construction site. Polish authorities pressure the Warsaw police to solve the case quickly, even if they have to invent a murderer.

    Unluckily for the authorities, the case is assigned to Komisarz Stefan Rej. Rej wants a real investigation and real justice, particularly once his investigation turns up evidence that more than one person has disappeared or been slaughtered near the hotel site. The location is linked to the ancient legend of the Tunnel Child, a murderous creature with the face of an angel, apparently created by mad Nazi scientists.

    Who, or what, are Sarah and Rej chasing?

    'One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time' PETER JAMES.

    'A true master of horror' JAMES HERBERT.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateMay 18, 2017
    ISBN9781786695642
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    The Chosen Child: compulsive horror from a true master
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    Graham Masterton

    Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1946. He worked as a newspaper reporter before taking over joint editorship of the British editions of Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. His debut novel, The Manitou, was published in 1976 and sold over one million copies in its first six months. It was adapted into the 1978 film starring Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Michael Ansara, and Burgess Meredith. Since then, Masterton has written over seventy-five horror novels, thrillers, and historical sagas, as well as published four collections of short stories and edited Scare Care, an anthology of horror stories for the benefit of abused children. He and his wife, Wiescka, have three sons. They live in Cork, Ireland, where Masterton continues to write.  

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    • 2/5
      A string of grisly murders lead the Warsaw police and an American business woman to the Warsaw sewers in search of the killer. Local legends point to the story of "The Tunnel Angel", a killer with the face of a child, the supposed result of Nazi genetic experimentation. The Chosen Child is a terrifying book that only the very bravest should attempt to read. With its bloody descriptions of murder and the shadowy figures of murdered children and blood-thirsty monsters skulking through its pages, The Chosen Child will have you sleeping with the lights on for weeks.
    • 1/5
      I never do this, but I read half the damn book. More than half, actually, and I was struggling because I simply didn't care about any of this.

      I'm not sure if it was the setting (Poland), which normally bothers me, but Masterton was trying so hard to set it in place that it became intrusive. Dude, go read some Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady novels to see how to set in a strange land and not be overt with it.

      Or maybe it was the fact that this book simply had no idea whether to be a police procedural, a thriller, or an outright horror. It straddled so many lines that each one was diluted.

      But the thing that pushed me over the edge? The stereotypical jealous psycho boyfriend that just wants to hump his ex who's obviously moved on. Okay, overall, it's a bad stereotype, but I can deal with it if there's something different brought to the table.

      Instead, the scene that made me close the cover and never come back was when the boyfriend shows up, flowers in hand, listens to the ex's protestations, then, as she simply sits and warns him off, he removes his coat, tie, shirt, shoes, socks, pants, underwear...while this previously set up as strong woman simply sits there. Stupid and offensive.

      And I'm done.