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Balance of Evil
Balance of Evil by Kim Rozdeba is a globe-hopping political thriller about Scott Barton, a retired mining executive whose post-heart-attack drift is detonated when he finds a titanium USB on a beach in Cabo San Lucas. What begins as curiosity turns into a conspiracy involving a secret Cold War pact, FIST, that suggests world powers have long been choreographing conflict in the name of “balance.” Scott and his wife, Colleen, are pushed from Mexico to Canada, Israel, Europe, and beyond, pursued by intelligence forces, money networks, and the awful realization that history may be less accidental than advertised.
I found the book most alive when it fused geopolitical paranoia with the worn intimacy of Scott and Colleen’s marriage. The chase mechanics are brisk, but the emotional engine is quieter: two people who have become strangers inside the same life suddenly forced to rely on each other with almost feral urgency. Colleen, in particular, gives the story a welcome edge. She’s not merely the frightened spouse or convenient sidekick; she is damaged, observant, funny, irritating, and often sharper than Scott when survival demands it. Their relationship keeps the novel from becoming only a dossier with explosions.
The conspiracy itself is audacious, sometimes deliciously so. Rozdeba leans into big, barbed ideas: covert superpower cooperation, manufactured instability, shell companies, assassinations, intelligence tradecraft, and the moral rot of “peace” maintained by violence. The exposition can feel heavy, as if the novel wants to brief me as much as thrill me. But I was drawn in by the book’s momentum and its appetite for scale. It has that old-fashioned thriller confidence: airports, aliases, dead drops, cryptic files, and the sense that every polished hotel lobby may contain a predator.
I think the target audience is readers who enjoy political thrillers, conspiracy thrillers, espionage fiction, and historical secret-history novels. Fans of Dan Brown’s puzzle-box momentum or Robert Ludlum’s institutional paranoia will recognize the terrain, though Rozdeba gives it a more contemporary anxiety about disinformation, authoritarian drift, and hidden money. Balance of Evil is a restless, high-stakes debut that treats peace not as a condition but as a contested battlefield. A thriller for readers who like their conspiracies vast, their heroes bruised, and their secrets radioactive.
Pages: 376 | ASIN : B0GND3M1W7
The Possibilities Are Endless
Solitaire follows a journalist and a ghostlike operator as they dive headfirst into the murder investigation of the deputy mayor and uncover layers of city corruption. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
Having served as a New York City Police Officer for twenty years, and later as a New York City mayoral candidate in 2020, I’ve had a unique view from both sides of the system: the complex, often polarizing world of law enforcement in the nation’s largest city, and the backroom deals and money-driven machinery of big-city politics. In Solitaire, those two worlds collide, as they often do in real life. Our struggling cities are searching for someone who can rise above the corruption and chaos, and that’s where Solitaire comes in.
How close do you think fiction like this comes to real-world possibilities?
In the rapidly expanding world of AI, I think the possibilities are endless—and not all of them are good. The idea of a system that can not only predict outcomes, but potentially shape or control them, no longer feels far-fetched. That possibility was one of the driving forces behind Solitaire.
The story moves at a fast, cinematic pace—how do you maintain momentum without losing depth?
For me, every chapter has to move the story forward. Whether it’s an action sequence or a quiet conversation between two characters, the reader has to understand what is driving the people on the page. If the characters’ motivations stay clear, the momentum stays strong because the reader remains invested in what happens next.
Can we look forward to more work from you soon? What are you currently working on?
I’m currently working on the follow-up to Solitaire. Sloane’s story is far from over, and Book Two raises the stakes significantly. I’m targeting a 2027 release, and I think readers will be very excited about where the story goes next.
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A private surveillance empire.
A ghost in the darkness.
When a Times Square shooting leaves a deputy mayor dead, the FBI investigation leads to KATSAI- an AI intelligence network that enhances public safety while also deciding outcomes, prosecutions and elections.
KATSAI decides who rises, and who disappears.
Once an investigative journalist becomes a target, Agents Devi and West are cut off by both New York City and Washington, DC political machines. Their only ally is a man who doesn’t exist- Solitaire, a covert operative
hunted across the globe with a personal stake in burning KATSAI to the ground.
If Solitaire fails and KATSAI survives, ballots are just theatre.
The flash drive decides.
Solitaire
Solitaire is a political thriller with a strong espionage pulse, and it opens by dropping us straight into a public shooting in Times Square that turns a mayoral campaign into a conspiracy story about surveillance, synthetic identities, and power hiding behind official systems. At the center are Grace Delgado, a relentless New York journalist, and Michael Sloane, a ghostlike operator tied to the Ace of Spades and a trail of old secrets, as they circle the murder of Deputy Mayor Robert Caldwell and the shadow network called KATSAI. What starts as a city corruption story grows into something broader and darker, with fake donors, weaponized tech, and a private apparatus trying to bend politics into obedience.
I really enjoyed the book’s momentum. Author Bill Pepitone writes like someone who knows how institutions sound from the inside, and that gives the novel a kind of hard floor under its feet. The scenes in City Hall, the FBI office, and the street-level New York moments have a lived-in feel that kept me leaning forward. I also liked that the book doesn’t pretend its people are clean heroes. Grace is stubborn, emotional, and smart in a way that gets her into trouble. Sloane is built like myth, but the book keeps trying to press bruises under the myth, especially in the quieter moments when his control slips. The dialogue can sometimes feel like everyone has a comeback in the chamber, but even then, the energy carries it.
I found the author’s choices around KATSAI and the fake donor machinery especially interesting because the book isn’t just chasing thrills for their own sake. It’s clearly interested in what happens when surveillance stops being a tool and starts becoming a nervous system for power. That idea lands. The novel’s best move, for me, is that it keeps tying giant systems back to private fear: Caldwell hiding a drive behind a picture frame, Shaw collapsing under pressure, Grace realizing too late that information itself can act like a flare in the dark. There is a pulp sheen to some of it, sure, and Sloane sometimes feels almost too competent, but that is also part of the book’s genre DNA. This is an espionage thriller fiction that wants to be sleek, tense, and a little larger than life, while still keeping one foot in recognizable political rot.
I came away feeling that Solitaire knows exactly what shelf it wants to sit on. It’s the kind of book I would recommend to readers who like conspiracy-driven thrillers, cat-and-mouse espionage, and stories where modern tech and old-fashioned power games collide in the same room. If you enjoy fast, cinematic fiction with a political edge, a wounded central duo, and a hero who moves through the world like a rumor with a passport, this will be very much your thing.
Pages: 259 | ISBN : 9781105802713
“a couple of suspicious deaths”
The Judas Saints follows an FBI Agent and a Park Police Sergeant whose cases overlap, and what begins as a couple of suspicious deaths slowly unfolds into a coordinated campaign of silencing, corruption, and cover-ups. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
The inspiration came from watching how easily institutional authority can mask wrongdoing when people assume those in power are acting in good faith. I was drawn to the idea of two law enforcement officers, each discovering pieces of a puzzle that neither could solve alone. The setup with FBI Agent Saville and Park Police Sergeant Pritchard allowed me to explore how suspicious deaths can be dismissed as suicides when the right people control the narrative. What fascinates me is that moment when patterns emerge, when “a couple of suspicious deaths” reveals itself as something coordinated and deliberate. The overlapping cases create natural friction between jurisdictions, which mirrors how conspiracies often survive. Not through elaborate planning, but through bureaucratic disconnection and the assumption that someone else must be handling it.
Saville operates outside Bureau approval. Pritchard risks her badge. What draws you to characters who push against their own institutions?
I’m drawn to these characters because they face consequences most thriller protagonists avoid. Saville operates outside Bureau approval knowing his career already hangs by a thread after Miami, and Pritchard risks her badge pursuing a case that’s been officially closed. What interests me isn’t rebellion for its own sake, it’s the moral calculus these characters make. Saville has promised a grieving mother he’ll find her son’s killer; Pritchard sees evidence of murder that everyone else dismisses. They’re not revolutionaries. They’re professionals who realize the system they serve has been corrupted in this specific instance. The tension comes from their loyalty to the institution’s ideals conflicting with its reality. Pritchard still wants that FBI Behavioral Science Unit position even as she investigates federal crimes. Saville still believes in the Bureau even as he works unauthorized. These contradictions feel authentic to me. Good people trapped between conscience and career.
The novel questions how power justifies itself in the name of national security. Why is that theme important to you?
This theme matters because “national security” has become the phrase that ends conversations rather than starts them. In the novel, the SAINTS surveillance program represents technology that could serve legitimate security needs but gets weaponized for profit and power. What troubles me is how easily the phrase “national security” provides cover for actions that have nothing to do with protecting anyone. Victor Farnsworth, Ken Burton, and others in the conspiracy use national security rhetoric while actually serving their own interests: financial gain, political survival, personal revenge. The theme explores how those words create a kind of moral immunity, where questioning becomes unpatriotic and oversight becomes obstruction. I wanted to show that the greatest threats to security often come from those claiming to protect it. When power can justify anything by invoking national security, we’ve lost the ability to distinguish between genuine threats and convenient excuses.
Will this novel be the start of a series, or are you working on a different story?
I’ve designed The Judas Saints to work as both a standalone thriller and as the foundation for a potential series. Saville and Pritchard’s partnership could continue, though their trajectories by the novel’s end suggest different paths. Saville’s unauthorized investigation and the conspiracy’s reach leave plenty of unresolved threads, while Pritchard faces decisions about her future in law enforcement. If I continue with these characters, I’m interested in exploring how their choices in this case haunt them professionally and personally.
That said, I’m also developing other projects. My next novel, Aftershock, is an espionage thriller that takes place during the heyday of the Cold War and is a prequel to my first novel, Devil’s Brew, featuring CIA agent David Jourbet.
Whether Saville and Pritchard return depends on whether readers connect with their struggle, and whether their story demands continuation or stands complete on its own.
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FBI Agent Mike Saville is already on thin ice with the Bureau when investigative journalist Davy Clough walks into his office with an impossible story. Clough claims he’s uncovered evidence of massive government corruption, but he’s killed before he can provide proof. The local medical examiner rules it suicide. Case closed.
Except Saville doesn’t believe it.
In Washington, D.C., Park Police Sergeant Lowri Pritchard is asking dangerous questions about another apparent suicide: Deputy White House Counsel Victor Farnsworth, found dead in West Potomac Park. The evidence doesn’t match the official story, but when Lowri pushes for answers, she’s told to back off. The case is closed. Move on.
She won’t.
What connects these deaths? A revolutionary software program called SAINTS that can track anyone, anywhere. Stolen from its creator and weaponized by government agencies, the program is worth hundreds of millions. People will kill to protect it. People have killed to protect it.
As Saville and Pritchard’s unsanctioned investigation intensifies, they uncover a network of staged suicides, corrupt officials, and a conspiracy that links a small-town sheriff, an Israeli intelligence operative, and Washington’s political elite. But someone is always one step ahead. A decorated detective with a taste for torture. A grieving widow with secrets of her own. And somewhere in the shadows, the person who orchestrated it all.
The deeper they dig, the deadlier it gets.
Saville is operating without Bureau approval, burned by past mistakes and running out of second chances. Pritchard is risking her badge, her career, and ultimately her life. When their investigation threatens the wrong people, the conspiracy strikes back with brutal efficiency. Partners die. Evidence disappears. And the two investigators find themselves hunted by the very system they swore to serve.
Perfect for fans of political thrillers that don’t pull punches, THE JUDAS SAINTS delivers a relentless story of corruption, conspiracy, and the cost of seeking truth in a city built on lies. With authentic procedural detail, morally complex characters, and a plot that twists through the dark underbelly of government power, this thriller asks a chilling question: What happens when the people sworn to protect us are the ones we need protection from?
From covert Israeli operations to White House intrigue, from torture chambers to the highest corridors of power, THE JUDAS SAINTS is a brutally realistic political thriller that exposes the machinery of conspiracy and the price of justice in modern America.
If you love the political intrigue of Brad Thor, the procedural authenticity of Michael Connelly, and the conspiracy depth of David Baldacci, THE JUDAS SAINTS delivers a pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you reading late into the night.
Justice isn’t blind in Washington. It’s for sale. And some truths are worth killing for.
Light in a Dark Place – Book Two
Light in a Dark Place by Forest Woodes is a science fiction space opera with a strong political thriller and military sci-fi streak, plus a pinch of cosmic horror. It opens with Yasmin Pasha and Crown Princess Sarasvati poking through a captured “ghost ship,” a vessel packed with corpses and scrubbed logs, except for a surviving clue that points to a mysterious Builder shipyard. The story then widens into court politics on Deva, a hunt for the warlord Bibi Khan, and a looming, much bigger threat that Sara insists is “coming” from the dark between the stars.
What I enjoyed right away is how Woodes balances big stakes with very human moments. The early banter between Yasmin and Sara in literal open space is funny and nervous in a way that feels earned, not “quippy for the sake of it.” Then, a few pages later, you’re in the Glass Palace with stormlight, marble, and all the weight of legacy, watching Sara try to convince her father that she is not being dramatic, she is being realistic. I also appreciated that the “ancient tech” thread is explained in plain terms through Clara, without turning into a lecture, just enough to make it feel dangerous and plausible in the book’s world.
The author’s choices get especially interesting when the book pivots from mystery into systems and power. There’s a coup speech that is chilling because it sounds like a real person justifying the unthinkable, and the book doesn’t soften that edge. And when Sara finally tells her twins what she is really up against, the mood shifts. The “little light” inside a black artifact, like looking at light under dark ice, is one of the few times the sensory language lands perfectly, because it matches the feeling of the whole book: hope, but faint, and surrounded. Then she goes further, laying out the towers, the countdown clock, and the Harvesters who leave dead worlds, and suddenly the story isn’t only about politics or even war, it’s about survival on a clock you did not know you started. That’s where it hooked me. It’s big, it’s scary, and it makes the smaller arguments feel tragically petty in a believable way.
I’d recommend Light in a Dark Place most to readers who like space opera that actually uses its scale, the kind where courtrooms and battle plans matter as much as starships, and where the “enemy” is not just a person but a whole pressure system. If you enjoy political maneuvering, morally complicated loyalties, and action that can jump from a tense ship investigation to a brutal public arena scene, you’ll find a lot here. If you like your science fiction a little stormy, with a professional, hard-eyed look at how civilizations crack and how people still try to build something anyway, it’s an easy recommendation.
Pages: 336 | ASIN : B0G42BPC1Z
The Judas Saints
The Judas Saints by Keith M. Spence is a political thriller that drops you into a web of staged suicides, buried evidence, and power plays that run from a small town all the way into the White House. We follow two main investigators: FBI Agent Michael Saville, who refuses to accept that an investigative journalist’s “suicide” is what it appears to be, and Park Police Sergeant Lowri Pritchard, who is asking the same hard questions about a dead deputy White House counsel in D.C. Their separate cases start to overlap, and what begins as a couple of suspicious deaths slowly unfolds into a coordinated campaign of silencing, corruption, and cover ups inside the American political machine. The book bills itself as “A Novel of Political Intrigue,” and that is exactly what it is: a conspiracy story with law enforcement at the center, written to make you wonder how far people in power will go to protect themselves.
It’s a nuts-and-bolts kind of thriller in the best sense. Spence spends time on the mechanics of investigation, the turf battles, the interviews that do not quite add up, and the way one small inconsistency can keep nagging at a cop or an agent who cannot let it go. The alternating focus between Saville and Pritchard gives the story a nice rhythm: one chapter feels grounded and local, the next widens the lens to D.C. and the political theater there, and together they keep pulling the plot tighter. I liked that the book does not rely only on big shootouts or chases to keep tension high. Sometimes it is a line in a report, a supposedly routine autopsy, or a carefully worded brush-off from a superior that makes your stomach dip. The prose itself is straightforward rather than flashy, which suits a political thriller that leans on procedure and puzzle-solving. Every so often, though, Spence drops in an image or a small sensory detail that reminds you there are real bodies, real grief, and real fear underneath all the paper and politics, and those moments hit harder because they are not overused.
What I enjoyed most were the choices he makes around villains and institutions. There is no single cackling mastermind twirling in the dark. Instead, the conspiracy is a network of people who are very plausible: a small town sheriff with his own priorities, a government insider who has decided that certain lives are collateral, an intelligence operative whose loyalty sits in a gray area, and a hit man type whose scenes carry a nasty edge. The book pokes at a pretty bleak idea, that some of the most dangerous threats to a democracy come from people who wrap themselves in the language of patriotism while quietly selling out the principles they claim to defend. That is not a subtle point, but in a political thriller subtle is not always the goal. I found myself both entertained and a little uneasy, thinking about how easy it is to hide behind process, jargon, or “national security” when bodies are on the ground. At the same time, the story still believes in individuals who do the right thing even when their own careers, and sometimes their lives, are on the line. That balance keeps the book from feeling completely cynical.
By the time I turned the last page, I felt like I had spent time in a world that was grim but believable, with investigators who are stubborn, flawed, and relatable. The Judas Saints leans into the strengths of the genre: intricate plotting, a growing sense of danger, and the satisfaction of watching people chip away at a lie that powerful folks desperately want to keep intact. I would happily recommend it to readers who enjoy conspiracy-driven crime fiction, fans of procedurals who like their cases tangled up with national politics, and anyone who wants a story that feels grounded in real-world corruption without drifting into lecture mode. If you like your thrillers more about legwork and moral choices than about gadgets and glamor, you’ll enjoy this story.
Pages: 306 | ASIN : B0GC7RKW5M
Drinking from the Stream
Drinking from the Stream follows two young Americans, Jake and Karl, whose chance meeting turns into a long, hazardous journey across East Africa in the early 1970s. What begins as flight, Jake from a violent past in Louisiana, Karl from ideological and emotional dead ends in the United States, becomes immersion. As they move through Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and beyond, their personal reckonings unfold alongside coups, ethnic violence, and the aftershocks of colonial rule. The novel braids coming-of-age restlessness with political catastrophe, asking what it means to stay human, or decent, when history is on fire around you.
I read this book with a mounting sense of unease, and I mean that as praise. Sacks doesn’t offer Africa as backdrop or metaphor; he insists on its specificity. Roads that punish the body, bureaucracies that toy with fate, conversations that slide from flirtation to terror without warning. Jake’s voice, in particular, is sharp-edged and morally alert, a man who knows he has crossed an invisible line and can’t uncross it. The novel’s early scenes on the oil rig, heavy with menace and casual hatred, establish a moral pressure that never really lifts, even when the landscape opens into beauty. I felt myself reading faster, not because the prose rushed me, but because it refused to soften what it saw.
What stayed with me most were the arguments about race, revolution, guilt, and responsibility that erupt in buses, bars, and borrowed rooms. These exchanges feel earned rather than staged, the product of young people who are smart, frightened, idealistic, and often wrong. The author has little patience for slogans, whether they come from Western radicals or newly empowered strongmen, and that skepticism gives the book its bite. Sometimes the historical density is demanding, but it mirrors the characters’ own overwhelm; ignorance here has consequences, sometimes lethal. By the end, I felt the weight of the knowledge the characters carry, knowledge they never asked for and can’t put down.
This book will most reward readers of historical fiction, literary adventure, and political coming-of-age novels, especially those drawn to morally complex travel narratives. If you admire the restless intelligence of The Sheltering Sky or the political consciousness of A Bend in the River, Drinking from the Stream belongs on your shelf. It’s a novel for readers who don’t want reassurance so much as reckoning. This is not a story about finding yourself abroad; it’s about discovering how much of the world you can carry back, and what it costs to do so.
Pages: 377 | ASIN : B0DXLQTN5M
The Sinister Nature of Power
The Bent Nail follows a man born into filth and neglect who becomes both a victim and an instrument of a shadowy organization bent on reshaping the world through brutality. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
The inspiration for The Bent Nail, or its predecessor, Nails, came from a sole source. The initial story structure stemmed from a challenge made by a close friend to see if I could develop multiple, separate plot lines and weave them together into a single, coherent, exciting story line. Challenge accepted.
What came from that challenge was the original Nails, a story that introduced the reader to three truly flawed individuals: Tau, Gideon, and Simon; three individuals who erroneously thought they were the uncontested wielders of power in their respective worlds. In effect, they thought they were the hammers of society; individuals who could pound on others and rule with impunity, only to discover their power was an illusion. They were merely nails just like anyone else.
The inspiration for the main character, Tau, is personal experience. I had the opportunity to work closely with an organization whose cause was helping the hopeless. That effort brought me elbow to elbow with people society had cast out into the streets because that was easier than looking for productive alternatives. These people were the products of an unforgiving world, chemical abuse, mental instability, or just bad luck. That was where Tau came from. Tau represents those in our society who are forgotten, lost, and disposed of, but he refuses to be dismissed. He resorts to violence because it’s the advantage he possesses. We fear him because he has nothing to lose. His character hits us hard, not just because he’s a repugnant and vicious individual, but also because he’s so damaged and we see his potential for good.
The story is motivated by what we experience contemporarily. We are bombarded by streams of questionable, repetitive soundbites intended to manipulate, separate, and control. What we end up with is a powerless people subjugated to the will of others. I wanted to portray the sinister nature of power and those individuals who use this to their advantage. Some readers consider The Bent Nail as a warning of the future, others, a reflection of today.
The violence in the book is raw and sometimes difficult to endure. What role does discomfort play in your storytelling?
I wrestled with this. You use the term raw, and it is. And that is very intentional. The violence was necessary to drive home the idea that the world we know is not the comfortable place we believe it to be. A veil of civility might cover up the violent, self-serving nature of man, but that rawness still exists. We see violence, greed, and the desire to control in almost all aspects of society when we look close enough. The Bent Nail challenges us to check ourselves so as not to be seduced by power and wealth.
For me, storytelling requires emotional engagement. Comfort rarely seems to fit with that concept. That’s not to say that my stories are all violent or even troubling. I would suspect many would suggest my Countenance of Man, a touching story of man rediscovering his father through the eyes of others, is emotionally wrenching, but hardly troublesome. The Bent Nail deals with power and corruption; it would be unfair to treat this kindly.
The book challenges the idea of freedom itself. Do you believe freedom is real, conditional, or illusory?
Superb question. Certainly, The Bent Nail would suggest that freedom is illusory, something we think we possess even when the evidence would suggest otherwise. Do I believe that? Not really. In our western society, freedom is absolutely real, not just an abstract concept; however, it is continuously under attack. The struggle is that freedom is not an immutable idea. We have become too comfortable with the notion that freedom never changes, something that once we have it, it will always be there. It’s not. The Bent Nail throws that reality in our face. It challenges us to continuously fight for it even when the consequences might be frightening. In this story, I hope the reader grasps that however frightening it might be to stand up for one’s rights, the alternative is far worse. If not, The Bent Nail becomes something more than a novel; it becomes prophecy.
To quote Benjamin Franklin, “Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
If The Bent Nail leaves readers unsettled long after they close it, what do you hope they do with that feeling?
I hope it leaves the reader unsettled. We live in an unsettled world filled with warring factions fighting for power. The Bent Nail surfaces that and it should bother us all. It illustrates how easy it is for those in authority to manipulate us, be it through engendering class envy, spoon feeding us with blatant misinformation, seducing us with the promise of power, or imposing their will through coercion. Our challenge is to understand who is behind the manipulation and to stand up to them.
The second point I want to leave with the reader is the need to be objective in assessing the world. Not everything is as it seems; adopting the beliefs of friends and neighbors merely because it seems easy and comfortable is dangerous. Of course, if one desires to be nothing but a nail, hammered into acquiescence, in a world similar to one I’ve invented, just keep capitulating to those who desire to control us through power.
Lastly, speaking of power, it is insanely seductive – for all of us. It can overwhelm the desire to do what we know to be right. People might look at these comments in light of what is going on in our society today and assume that The Bent Nail is either right wing or left wing. That’s a perspective thing and would be a tremendous mistake. Neither political side has a monopoly on being correct. Don’t let others tell you what to believe.
M.D. reintroduces the three flawed characters you hated in Nails: Simon, a journalist without a conscience; Gedeon, a murderer without a heart; and Tau, a man without hope. In this masterful sequel, their lives collide as they each struggle to avoid becoming nothing more than hammered nails underpinning a centuries-old, secretive family committed to world dominance. Through deceit, mass murder and economic control the Family seeks to establish a new and lasting world order under their direct and unquestioned authority. Corruption and the seductive nature of power provide the backdrop as Tau, Simon, and Gedeon wrestle with their personal demons as they seek to survive.
Although The Bent Nail is a story that will disturb and frighten even the boldest of readers, it is one that will pull you in and capture you from the first page, a story you won’t be able to put down… and one that you will remember forever.
