Vitreous humour takes on a whole new definition in HUNTER, Jack Heath’s eye popping sequel to Hangman, the delicious debut of his anthropophagus shamus, Timothy Blake.
After severing ties with the FBI, Blake is currently employed as a body disposal agent for Charlie Warner, queen bee king pin crime boss of Houston, Texas. Blake’s biz is making evidence inadmissible by turning it edible.
Turns out, Timothy is a glutton for punishment as he stumbles upon a body he was not meant to discover and instinctively hearkens to the carrion call, taking an irresistible bite. Talk about indentured!
He’s got the taste and makes haste, so as not to waste, to doggy bag the cadaver back to his pad. Trouble is, this stiff is of interest to the FBI and his old handler, Thistle, wants him to help in the investigation.
Thistle is a thorn in Timothy’s side. They have history, “drawn to each other in a way that was dangerous for both of us. I knew there were only two possible outcomes for our relationship: me getting arrested, or her getting eaten.”
But what can a person who is addicted to solving mysteries as much as feasting on human flesh, do?
HUNTER boasts a multifarious and multi faceted plot that takes Timothy into the realm of ‘giantess’ porn and “vores”, people who fantasise about being eaten, and a sex doll company called She’s Alive!
Abuzz with the bizarre, an alternation of uncomfortable hunger and uncomfortable repletion, HUNTER hooks and lands a catch of thrills, suspense, black humour and colourful characters.
Jack Heath has proved himself so fine a thriller writer that he deserves to be judged in a class of his own. He knows how to whet your appetite and keep you hungry until the last satisfying page, with the menace of outer darkness, and the inner cinder block of conflicting emotions and primal urges, peppered with a delight in the rollicking absurdity of macabre mayhem.
Irresistible as carrion to a vulture, HUNTER comes with the force of a mugger in an ill-lit alley.
Almost indecently entertaining, HUNTER is one of those rare gems – a sequel that delivers.