The Ancient

(Paperback)

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Alien, on a container ship.
Scary and unputdownable, Stephen King
Amongst towering mountains of trash in the backstreets of Lima, three young boys are trying to raise an ancient demon. They don't think their incantation has worked; but that night a teenage drugrunner is gunned down across their makeshift altar. As his killers walk away, his body stirs. Not because it still contains a spark of life. But because something is stirring beneath it

Port Callao. The MV Lysicrates, a three-quarter-mile long supertanker, is being loaded with hundreds of tonnes of trash. Watching from the bridge, in a bleary state of hungover gloom, is second-in-command Matthew Cotton; more interesting is the arrival of a young American student who has missed the boat she should have been on.

They should have paid more attention to the trash.

With its powerful blend of superb characterisation and demonic horror, Muriel Gray's new novel is her best yet.

Reviews

From the reviews of The Trickster and Furnace:
'The Trickster is written with incredible vigour thuggish, gory, sentimental, cosy. It grips'
Daily Mail

'Gray tells her tale with immense elan. A smashing debut that's gutsier than most authors could ever be' Time Out

'Pacy, energetic, violent entertainment whose flashes of intuition and glittery neurosis give it an idiosyncratic edge' The Times

Author Bio

Muriel Gray is a media personality, the hugely talented creator and presenter of numerous TV shows, including The Tube, The Media Show and The Snow Show.