Living in Flames

For Dex Raskovic, Bristol was supposed to be a place to get his life back together. Bounced out of the marines on a dishonourable discharge ticket, he's ended up working for a violent criminal family; running a nightclub, selling genetically modified drugs and looking for the next side-angle to skim some profit. Still, he's got girls and he's got money. Things are looking up. But then he finds a carved...
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For Dex Raskovic, Bristol was supposed to be a place to get his life back together. Bounced out of the marines on a dishonourable discharge ticket, he's ended up working for a violent criminal family; running a nightclub, selling genetically modified drugs and looking for the next side-angle to skim some profit. Still, he's got girls and he's got money. Things are looking up. But then he finds a carved African idol clutched in the hands of a dead man who is barely human. It's a discovery that changes his world forever.

The consequences shred through everything and everyone he's come to know in the city. Whilst the bruised history of Bristol is pulled into sharp media focus, the tendrils of an ancient merchant family reach out to destroy their enemies. And a carrion God, lying dormant for three hundred years, slowly unfolds within the dark spaces beneath the streets.

"Rips forward at a frenetic pace, barely lets up. Like a Guy Ritchie movie with H.P. Lovecraft and William Gibson. The tight cast of characters play off each other well, strong dialogue and surprising twists with the interpersonal dynamics keeps the reader turning the pages. I devoured this book in two days, staying way past my bed time in my eagerness to uncover the dark secrets and how it would all play out. A thrilling read and recommended to anyone." --- Madison Cooper

Science Fiction Dark Fantasy Author David J Rodger Delivers His Sixth Novel
David J Rodger's successful blend of gritty near future fiction and blunt, remorseless horror, continues with Living in Flames - following on the back of the smash hits Dante's Fool; Iron Man Project, Edge and God Seed. All five books are separate and unrelated stories that occupy a single shared universe.

Compared to "Shallow Grave meets Reservoir Dogs with razor-sharp teeth", Living in Flames shines an uncomfortable light on the secret history of a now global corporate family, the Carthews: a gruesome truth that snakes back three-hundred years to a time when ships carried human cargo, and the repulsive cult that rode the 18th century seas with it. Living in Flames introduces a new monster into the pantheon of cosmic horror from beyond the stars in the form of a new Great Old One, and the deviant, twisted human beings who worship it.