Book description
The explosive debut novel from the brilliant Sean Cregan - THE LEVELS
is a dark, urban gothic thriller guaranteed to appeal fans of Child,
Coben, Billingham and Kernick. On the outskirts of Newport, on the US
East Coast, lies an abandoned, feral housing project: the Levels.
Inhabited by Newport's forgotten homeless population, the Levels are run
as a personal fiefdom by the all-powerful Sorrow. As THE LEVELS opens,
ex-CIA agent Nate Turner, who is in the Levels to find out who has just
tried to kill him, meets a 14-year-old girl Ghost. Ghost is a Fury, one
of Sorrow's trained, drug-addicted assassins looking for a way back to
her normal life. Also in the Levels is Kate, a suspended cop, who has
been told that she has only days to live after being attacked, and
infected, by the Beast, a serial killer working the streets. The Beast
is out for revenge on Kate's new employer, who he believes created the
infection that's killing him, an infection that has also been released
into the Levels. Now Ghost is trying to escape Sorrow, Kate is looking
for the Beast and Turner is looking for answers. One thing's for sure,
some people aren't going to survive the fallout... Sean started
writing at university as a way of escaping his engineering degree,
before becoming a trade journalist working out of a brick shed. He
writes full time, and published four novels under his real name, before
changing style, content, publisher and identity to something much more
fun. He's a single dad and lives on the south coast with his little boy.
He has never owned a cat, and each year more and more of them go missing
in his neighbourhood.
