The writer is described on the cover as one 'who may very well be the successor to Stephen King', I have only read one of the latter's books but it
is immeasurably superior to this pot-boiler. The plot is just about feasible
and some of the effects are reasonably well done but the overall impression is
one of an author trying to shock for the sake of shocking. This was not the
genre I usually read and this author has certainly not encouraged me to try
any more of his books.