| A POWERFUL STORY OF FOUR MEN WHO KILL A BURGLAR...AND ARE STALKED BY THE BURGLAR'S FRIEND WHO ESCAPED
"This suspenser aptly demonstrates Gorman’s skill in eliciting goose bumps, as a group of suburban guys find their weekly poker game interrupted by burglars. One is caught, whom they torture, but another gets away, which they’ll soon regret … assuming they live. This one’s begging to be made into a movie." —Bookgasm
"Ed Gorman's powerful 'Out There in the Darkness' is a classic of traditional storytelling." —Good Reads
"We’re presented with a recognisable domestic set-up: “four fortyish men who work in the financial business getting together for beer and bawdy jokes and straight poker”. Tonight, it’s Aaron, the narrator, hosting the game, joined by his friends Mike, Bob and Neil. Neil has been delayed due to being on patrol; following a series of burglaries and murders, the neighbourhood residents take turns driving around at night, keeping an eye out for trouble. Later that evening, the poker game is interrupted when one of the four men encounters an intruder in the kitchen. It’s this confrontation, and how the characters react to it, that sends their lives into a tailspin, as every attempt to salvage the situation only leads them deeper into trouble, morally and legally. —Spinetingler Magazine |
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