A tale about Bigfoot filled with waxen prose, stick-figure characters and bad-TV dialogue. Hansen, whose last product was 2004's It's in the Book, Bob!, a Bob Eubanks bio co-written with the gameshow god, isn't big on subtlety. Boom! Trees splinter as a Weyerhaeuser truck driver mysteriously disappears in the Washington woods. Ty Greenwood, a Seattle dot-com tycoon, grabs a flagon of single malt, leaps into his 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing and hurtles through the night to kill himself, freaked because he's seen Bigfoot. Top-dollar lawyers go hiking and get crunched by Sasquatch, one of them departing earth like so: "...his neck had just suffered the catastrophic C2-C3 break, rendering his body from his shoulders to his toes into just so much flaccid meat." An ancient Indian chief wakes screaming on a Hollywood movie set, remembering his encounter decades past with...you guessed it, Bigfoot. A newscaster, bitchy but "drop-dead gorgeous," schemes toward the big time by getting the scoop on Hideous Hairy. And on and on. The Scary Movie antics mildly entertain, but what's truly frightening is that Hansenworld seems inhabited solely by broad-shouldered dudes, darling children, crusty-but-fair newspaper editors and guys with grunts for names (Mitch, Jack, Ben, Ty, Mac). Even more spine-searing are sentences like this, describing a hawk circling overhead: "Deep inside his small brain a circuit was receiving a vibration on the frequency band just slightly above that of his material world." Yeah, just like that. Story: not scary. Writing: terrifying.
Bigfoot wants revenge! Just as Jaws terrified people right out of the water, The Shadowkiller will keep readers out of the woods...for good.
The legend continues: The Story of Bigfoot is among the most enduring legends of all time. Sightings are reported every day, and scientists such as Jan Goodall have proclaimed their belief that it exists.
The Shadowkiller is reminiscent of early Stephen King-a good, old-fashioned ghost story. This scary, funny, gory tale will make even the most hardcore skeptics think twice before going camping,
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The legend continues: The Story of Bigfoot is among the most enduring legends of all time. Sightings are reported every day, and scientists such as Jan Goodall have proclaimed their belief that it exists.
The Shadowkiller is reminiscent of early Stephen King-a good, old-fashioned ghost story. This scary, funny, gory tale will make even the most hardcore skeptics think twice before going camping,
The Shadowkiller: A Novel
Bigfoot wants revenge! Just as Jaws terrified people right out of the water, The Shadowkiller will keep readers out of the woods...for good.
The legend continues: The Story of Bigfoot is among the most enduring legends of all time. Sightings are reported every day, and scientists such as Jan Goodall have proclaimed their belief that it exists.
The Shadowkiller is reminiscent of early Stephen King-a good, old-fashioned ghost story. This scary, funny, gory tale will make even the most hardcore skeptics think twice before going camping,
The legend continues: The Story of Bigfoot is among the most enduring legends of all time. Sightings are reported every day, and scientists such as Jan Goodall have proclaimed their belief that it exists.
The Shadowkiller is reminiscent of early Stephen King-a good, old-fashioned ghost story. This scary, funny, gory tale will make even the most hardcore skeptics think twice before going camping,
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| BN ID: | 2940170716531 |
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| Publisher: | Tantor Audio |
| Publication date: | 02/01/2007 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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