30 Days of Night: Eternal Damnation: Book 3 (3) - Softcover

Niles, Steve; Mariotte, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743496531 ISBN 13: 9780743496537

Publisher: Pocket Star, 2008

Synopsis

Raising the stakes in an already perilous situation, the elite members of a clandestine government sect have taken it upon themselves to become the arbiters of pain and violence against one of the most terrifying forces humanity has ever encountered. But there will be a heavy -- and horrifying -- final price to pay for both sides of an inhuman struggle that now threatens to spill over into an unsuspecting world....

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About the Author:

Jeff Mariotte is the award-winning author of more than seventy novels, including thrillers Empty Rooms and The Devil’s Bait, supernatural thrillers Season of the Wolf, Missing White Girl, River Runs Red, and Cold Black Hearts, and horror epic The Slab. With his wife, the author Marsheila Rockwell, he wrote the science fiction/horror/thriller 7 SYKOS, and numerous shorter works. He also writes comic books, including the long-running horror/Western comic book series Desperadoes and graphic novels Zombie Cop and Fade to Black. He has worked in virtually every aspect of the book business, including bookselling, marketing, editing, and publishing. He lives in Arizona, in a home filled with books, art, music, toys, and love.

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For days, smoke, steam, and the plaintive cries of the dying issued from the hole.

From ground level, it looked as if someone had built a new opening to hell. Norwegian authorities wisely stayed far away. The few travelers who noticed the smoke from the highway and tried to approach were dissuaded by the immediate stink of death, the electric madness that coursed through the air and set their teeth on edge and made their hair stand up, even the sight of the occasional filthy survivor, with matted hair and ragged clothes and open wounds.

Everywhere was blood, blood, blood.

So nobody bore witness to the ones who pushed through the wall of stench.

They drove as far as they could on a road made impassable by heavy snow, then got out and walked, carrying their equipment and supplies.

Approaching the hole, their booted feet broke through red snow. They stood at the holeÕs rim for a while, shoveling through snow and debris, talking about the sight in soft voices, making notes, one taking digital photographs to document the scene. They swallowed hard, chuckled, patted each otherÕs shoulders with gloved hands, and stamped their feet against the coldÑwhatever it took to remind them that they were still upright, their bodies more or less whole, and that they wouldnÕt see anyone like themselves inside the gaping pit.

Then they went inside.

Copyright © 2008 by Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith, and Idea + Design Works, LLC

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Star
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0743496531
• ISBN 13: 9780743496537
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 336