Fiend by Peter
Stenson hits the shelves this week – out from William Heinemann (£14.99):
“When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella
socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a long-time meth
addict, he’s no stranger to horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations. But as he
and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end
of the world really has arrived.
The funny thing is, Chase’s life was over long before the
apocalypse got here, his existence already reduced to a stinking basement
apartment and a filthy mattress and an endless grind of buying and selling and
using. He’s lied and cheated and stolen and broken his parents’ hearts a
thousand times. And he threw away his only shot at sobriety a long time ago,
when he chose the embrace of the drug over the woman he still loves.
And if your life’s already shattered beyond any normal hopes
of redemption … well, maybe the end of the world is an opportunity. Maybe
it’s a last chance for Chase to hit restart and become the man he once dreamed
of being. Soon he’s fighting to reconnect with his lost love and dreaming of
becoming her hero among civilization’s ruins. But is salvation just another
pipe dream?”
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