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Curse the Names
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ISBN13: 9781617750304
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Dec 27 2011
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
In this unsettling mix of noir and paranormal obsession . . . Arellano displays a sly, Hitchcockian touch. --Publishers Weekly
Arellano pulls off the not-inconsiderable feat of making the disintegration of his hero more compelling than the end of the world as we know it. --Kirkus Reviews
High on a mesa in the mountains of New Mexico, a small town hides a dreadful secret. On a morning very soon there will be an accident that triggers a terrible chain reaction, and the world we know will be wiped out.
James Oberhelm, a reporter at Los Alamos National Laboratory, already sees the devastation, like the skin torn off a moment that is yet to be. He believes he can prevent an apocalypse, but first James must escape the devices of a sensuous young blood tech, a lecherous old hippie, a predator in a waking nightmare, and a forsaken adobe house high away in the Sangre de Cristo mountains whose dark history entwines them all.
A massive bomb is ticking beneath the sands of the Southwest, and time is running out to send a warning. James has to find a way to pass along the message--even if it ruins him.
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