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Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared. Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared. Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...

Novinář Joe Oakes je rodilý skeptik. Píše pro časopis, který se specializuje na odhalování scestných teorií o paranormálních jevech. Pokaždé se mu podařilo nalézt racionální vysvětlení. Pak ho ale šéfredaktor vyslal na odlehlý skotský ostrov... Na ostrově žije podivná komunita lidí, stádo divokých prasat – a údajně i samotný satan. Jeho přítomnost má dokladovat i nekvalitní video, na němž je zachycena jakási podivná bytost, napůl člověk, napůl stvůra. Přízračná atmosféra i naprostá izolace pozvolna nahlodávají Oakesovu někdejší jistotu, že i tentokrát ze všeho vyjde jako slavný novinář, který odhalil něčí rafinovaný podvod. Namísto toho se Oakes ocitá na území temnějším a nebezpečnějším, než dokázaly pojmout jeho nejodvážnější představy. Vyzbrojen kamerou a posledními zbytky odvahy se vydává na protilehlou stranu ostrova. Jakmile však překročí hranici tvořenou prasečími lebkami, rozpoutá sled krvavých událostí, které neodvratitelně směřují k závěrečnému katastrofickému střetu...

Novinář Joe Oakes je rodilý skeptik. Píše pro časopis, který se specializuje na odhalování scestných teorií o paranormálních jevech. Pokaždé se mu podařilo nalézt racionální vysvětlení. Pak ho ale šéfredaktor vyslal na odlehlý skotský ostrov... Na ostrově žije podivná komunita lidí, stádo divokých prasat – a údajně i samotný satan. Jeho přítomnost má dokladovat i nekvalitní video, na němž je zachycena jakási podivná bytost, napůl člověk, napůl stvůra. Přízračná atmosféra i naprostá izolace pozvolna nahlodávají Oakesovu někdejší jistotu, že i tentokrát ze všeho vyjde jako slavný novinář, který odhalil něčí rafinovaný podvod. Namísto toho se Oakes ocitá na území temnějším a nebezpečnějším, než dokázaly pojmout jeho nejodvážnější představy. Vyzbrojen kamerou a posledními zbytky odvahy se vydává na protilehlou stranu ostrova. Jakmile však překročí hranici tvořenou prasečími lebkami, rozpoutá sled krvavých událostí, které neodvratitelně směřují k závěrečnému katastrofickému střetu...

When the decomposed body of a young woman is found by near railway tracks just outside Bristol on a hot May morning, all indications are that she's committed suicide. That's how the police want it too, all neatly squared and tidied away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen. And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared. Police Driver Flea Marley is working alongside Caffery. Front Cover

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared. Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared. Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...

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