Book description
The first book in the Jack Nightingale supernatural thriller series.
'You're going to hell, Jack Nightingale': They are words that ended his
career as a police negotiator. Now Jack's a struggling private detective
- and the chilling words come back to haunt him.
Nightingale's life is turned upside down the day that he inherits a
mansion with a priceless library; it comes from a man who claims to be
his father, and it comes with a warning. That Nightingale's soul was
sold at birth and a devil will come to claim it on his thirty-third
birthday - just three weeks away.
Jack doesn't believe in Hell, probably doesn't believe in Heaven either.
But when people close to him start to die horribly, he is led to the
inescapable conclusion that real evil may be at work. And that if he
doesn't find a way out he'll be damned in hell for eternity. Stephen
Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. Before
becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on
newspapers such as The Times
, the Daily Mail
and the South China Morning Post
in Hong Kong. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI,
shoveled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump
attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing
full time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into more than
ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as
London's Burning, The Knock
and the BBC's Murder in Mind
series and two of his books, The Stretch
and The Bombmaker
, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website, www.
stephenleather. com.
