Exiles
By (Author) Mason Coile
John Murray Press
Baskerville
30th September 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Psychological thriller
Science fiction
Paperback
320
Width 135mm, Height 216mm
*The new novel from the author of WILLIAM*
'A propulsive gasp of a novel' Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your EyesIt is 2030, and a three-person human crew are on a ship travelling to Mars as part of a colonizing mission.Four years earlier, three robots were sent to the planet to build the base for the humans but when the human crew arrive, they discover a third of the base has been destroyed and only two of the three robots remain.When the humans question the robots, the robots offer two overlapping but different stories: the first believes they were attacked by a hostile extraterrestrial "other," the second attests the attack was the result of a violent malfunction on the part of the third robot - a being that still stalks the Martian desert. As the mystery slowly unravels, the humans and the robots play a deadly game of cat and mouse to find out the truth of what has happened at the base. As secrets are revealed - about both the humans and the robots - the truth about what has happened at the base comes to light in a horrifying and gruesome climax.Mason Coile just brought gothic horror to Mars. Don't let its vast landscape fool you, there's something haunting this planet, and these pages. I absolutely inhaled this propulsive gasp of a noveL
Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the award-winning author of ten novels including The Demonologist, which won the International Thriller Writers Award, and Lost Girls, which was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year. Both Coile and Pyper live in Toronto.