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The Ghost of Days Past
Paperback
Publisher Price: $22.50
ISBN13: 9781067321703
Publisher: North & Mercer Publishing
Published: Sep 18 2026
Pages: 582
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
.The central mystery of The Ghost of Days Past is not whether Kade is alive-that question is answered early and definitively-but rather a far more psychologically unsettling question: What is Holt really trying to do? As Frank delves deeper, he discovers that the murders are not random. They are not driven by Holt's desire for recognition or notoriety. They are driven by something far more calculated: Holt's conviction that he is completing a narrative that Kade began ten years ago, that he is writing the final chapter of a story that Frank is destined to conclude. Holt believes that Frank killed Kade ten years ago, and that the only way to honor that act is to create circumstances that will force Frank to kill again-to transform Frank from detective into instrument, from investigator into the final solution to a problem that can only be resolved through violence.
But as Frank descends into the chambers beneath the earth, confronts the man who has orchestrated this elaborate revenge, and finally understands the full scope of the conspiracy, he is forced to reckon with a truth far more devastating than the existence of Kade's successor. He must accept that his obsession with Kade-his ten-year hunt, his sleepless nights, his willingness to sacrifice everything to understand-has turned him into something uncomfortably close to what Kade was. Through years of pursuit and psychological warfare, the hunter and the hunted have become fundamentally indistinguishable.
The Ghost of Days Past is a psychological thriller that explores the nature of obsession, how pursuing darkness can transform a person into something dark themselves, and the possibility that some ghosts refuse to stay buried no matter how deep we try to bury them. It is the first book in a series following Captain Mara Ellison, the woman who survives the labyrinth and emerges to discover that the nightmare is far from over-that Holt was merely the beginning of something far more elaborate, that there are other chambers being built, other stories waiting to be written, and that the conspiracy reaches deeper and wider than anyone could have imagined.
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