Morrell's trademark action sequences are embedded with fascinating historical clues that make Scavenger a thrill-a-minute page-turner as well as a mesmerizing literary experience. The result is a surreal palimpsest, one that contains the secret of survival for Balenger and a handful of unwilling players who race against the game's clock to solve the puzzle of the time capsule, only to discover that time is the true scavenger. Scavenger is a brilliant and frightening hunter-hunted tale that layers modern technology over the dusty artifacts of earlier times. Co-founder of the International Thrillers Writers Organization, he is considered by many to be the father of the modern action novel. But sometimes the past is buried for a reason. David Morrell is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight books, including his award-winning Creepers. To save himself and the woman he loves, he must play by the rules of a god-like Game Master with an obsession for unearthing the past. Frank Balenger, the resolute but damaged hero of Creepers, now finds himself trapped in a nightmarish game of fear and death. Scavenger, Morrell's latest novel, takes us in a harrowing new direction – a desperate high-tech scavenger hunt for a 100-year-old time capsule. A New York Times bestseller, it won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award and earned numerous critical raves. A high-tech adventure thriller about a life-or-death search for a 100-year-old time capsule.ĭavid Morrell's Creepers was a publishing event in 2005, a powerful, edgy, dark thriller by a master of the genre.
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