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The Spirit Box Paperback – November 7, 2017

by Stephen Gallagher (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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Rachel's in trouble. She's a ticking bomb. A couple of co-workers bullied her into stealing a radical new drug from their employer, and now it's lodged inside her. They're watching her like hawks and her time's running out.

John Bishop runs security for the company. As a father who once lost a teenaged daughter to an accidental overdose, his drive to hunt down the thieves and rescue their victim grows more intense with every lost minute. He can never bring his own child back. But he can save someone else's.

Which is fine... until his superiors realise that if the swallowed package bursts and Rachel dies, their secrets are kept safe and their problem goes away.

Though Bishop's on the trail, he's an easy man to cut loose and discredit. But now he's Rachel's only hope.

"Gallagher's hardboiled style is pitch-perfect for the tale's grim events, but he leavens it with dislocating moments of powerful emotion that draw the reader irresistibly to the characters. The novel packs a wallop that should make an impact on fans of both suspense and horror fiction."

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    291 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    November 7, 2017
  4. Dimensions
    5.25 x 0.73 x 8 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0995797374
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0995797376
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Brooligan Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 7, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 291 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0995797374
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0995797376
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.73 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Stephen Gallagher

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Beginning his TV career with the BBC's DOCTOR WHO, Stephen Gallagher went on to establish himself as a writer and director of high-end miniseries and primetime episodic television. In his native England he's adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas. In the US he was lead writer on NBC's CRUSOE, creator of CBS Television's ELEVENTH HOUR, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's THE FORGOTTEN. His fourteen novels include DOWN RIVER, RAIN, VALLEY OF LIGHTS, and NIGHTMARE, WITH ANGEL. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels beginning with THE KINGDOM OF BONES and THE BEDLAM DETECTIVE, continuing in THE AUTHENTIC WILLIAM JAMES.

Described by The Independent as "the finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since le Carré ... Gallagher, like le Carré, is a novelist whose themes seem to reflect something of the essence of our times, and a novelist whose skill lies in embedding those themes in accessible plots." According to Arena magazine, "Gallagher has quietly become Britain's finest popular novelist, working a dark seam between horror and the psychological thriller.

The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Since Valley of Lights, he has been refining his own brand of psycho-thriller, with a discomforting knack of charting mental disintegration and a razor-sharp sense of place." Charles de Lint wrote in Mystery Scene magazine, "Gallagher is a master of abnormal psychology and he just gets better and better." Also in Mystery Scene David Mathew added, "never a writer to rest on his laurels, he has written good hard thrillers, some horror genre work (such as Valley of Lights), and a novel (Oktober) that might even qualify as a vague distortion of contemporary world fantasy... in places. You might go as far as to employ that overused phrase sui generis. He is, at any rate, one of the best writers of his generation."

Winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild awards.

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  • Konrad Kern
    3.0 out of 5 stars 3 1/2 stars
    Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2006
    This isn't what I would call a white knuckle thriller as mentioned by PW, though it was a solid effort. It seemed to drag on at times and was a little wordy, and it just didn't have that 'ooomph' I'm used to in a good thriller. I thought the cover to be very misleading too. I would have never looked at this book in the book store (I read the review in PW and got it from the library.) because the cover--which looks like it might be a spiritual story of a modern day tribe--doesn't give a hint that this might be a thriller at all. Well it's an average thriller at best so your better off getting it at your local library.
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  • Mr. S. P. Gomersall
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent pursuit thriller with a subtle hint of the supernatural
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2016
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    Fans of Stephen Gallagher will recognise the way in which he creates sympathetic but believably flawed characters and places them in what seems like inescapable situations. In The Spirit Box, his first person protagonist is driven to find and save the life of a young girl he barely knows, haunted by his failure to save his own daughter... And, something else - the shaky, half-glimpsed hint of a message from beyond the grave. Is he just going mad from grief? Gallagher's trademark wit and gift for snappy dialogue, along with plenty of twists, evocative descriptions of places and supporting characters all add up to a satisfying read. The MacGuffin here is similar to the one he used in Oktober - could a faulty batch of pharmaceuticals allow apparent communion with the deceased? - but the supernatural element here is deliberately ambiguous, and therein lies the writer's immense skill. Overall, highly recommended.
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