Few things are pleasanter to read when cosy in bed than utterly dreadful dystopian things happening to somebody else.Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch MassacreĪs the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined.

' Devolution is by Max Brooks, who wrote the stone cold classic that is World War Z, so I will follow him pretty much anywhere. This slow-burning page-turner will appeal to Brooks' devoted fans and speculative fiction readers who enjoy tales of monsters.' Publishers Weekly 'Brooks packs his plot with action, information, and atmosphere, and captures both the foibles and the heroism of his characters. I was gripped from the first page to the last!' Les Stroud, creator of Survivorman It is a horror story about how anyone, especially those who think they are above it, can slowly devolve into primal, instinctual behaviour. The characters soar, the ideas sing, and it's all going to scare the living daylights out of you.' Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion 'Devolution is one of the greatest horror novels I've ever read. Terry Gross and Kai Ryssdal as themselves Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it - and like none you've ever read before.

We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us - and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity.

Kate's is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity's defiance in the face of a terrible predator's gaze, and inevitably, of savagery and death.īecause if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate's extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the beasts behind it, once thought legendary but now known to be terrifyingly real.

until now.īut the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing - and too earth-shattering in its implications - to be forgotten. FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WORLD WAR ZĪs the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined.

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