Seven Days

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For fans of Stephen Kings Misery and Jo Nesbs The Snowman comes an engrossing thriller about a monster who becomes a victim and a victim who becomes a monster. From Patrick Sencal, the Quebec author who has sold over a million books worldwide.

One sunny fall day, Dr. Bruno Hamels life changes forever.

His beloved seven-year-old daughter, Jasmine, is the victim of a tragic crime. Grief-stricken, Hamel sets in play a meticulous plan. He will kidnap the man responsible for his daughters death and make him pay horribly for what he has done. He manages to ambush a police transport and disappear with his target.

But Hamel hasnt accounted for Herv Mercure, a detective with a troubled past who becomes certain he can track down Hamel by studying clues in his pastand in the increasingly unsettling phone calls Hamel makes to his partner, Sylvie.

Both riveting and provocative, this daring thriller is an enthralling meditation on what it means to be humanand to battle the monster within and without.

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Praise forSeven Days

Sencal is concerned with big questions here: what is the nature of evil . . . What are the limits of grief and sanity Is revenge ultimately futile or purgative . . . The issues Sencal grapples with are urgent, especially in our current fraught political moment.

* Quill & Quire *
A tight little drama.

* The Globe and Mail *
Sencal asks big questions about the nature of humanity. * Publishers Weekly *
A visceral thriller propelled by the seething, heartbreaking passion of revenge. Sencal holds nothing back, which is what makes reading him feel so dangerous.

-- Andrew Pyper, bestselling author of The Only Child and The Demonologist
Both highly moral and absolutely terrifying. A revenge fantasy enacted with perfect, ambiguousrealism. -- Nathan Ripley, bestselling author of Find You in the Dark
With Seven Days, English-speaking readers are going to discover what millions of French readers already know: Patrick Sencal is the real deal. I hope they enjoy this dementedly wonderful book as much as I did, but be warned: Here there be Tygers. -- Craig Davidson, author of The Saturday Night Ghost Club
Praise for PatrickSencal

Sencal is currently Qubecs best horror author. * CFOU FM Le Voyageur insolite *
An author that no other equals in his ability not only to keep the readers riveted, but also to plunge them in an unsettling state from where they dont wake up before having devoured the book to its very last page. * LOeil regional *
Sencal masterfully sets up the thrillers efficient mechanics, a well-tempered mix of suspense and terror which has made its success. His books are full of tortured and excessive beings, outwardly strong but inwardly tormented. This is the reason why his literary universe is so seductive and so unsettling, and keeps us on the edge of our seats. * Accs Laurentides *
The authors best quality is that he doesnt flinch from his subject and goes all the way, with all the unsparing, morbid details. * Lectures *
Without imitating Stephen Kings style, Patrick Sencal manages to instill as much interest in the reader as does the master of American horror stories. * Qubec franais *
What a great discovery! Patrick Sencals universe is simply terrifying, for our greatest enjoyment! Reading this very talented author guarantees lots of extremely pleasurable shivers! * CHEY Rock Dtente *
He excels at telling stories, revealing in the building-up of that ultra-precise mechanism which is that of the thriller, oiling each and every cog, listening to the implacable ticking of the words which well, it must be said, he uses to manipulate the reader. * La Presse *
Sencal writes very efficiently. Action, rhythm, taking hold of the reader, are more important to him than stylistic flourishes. All the better for us. * Nuit Blanche *
A Qubec author who is a master at unsettling our emotions and taking us very far into the pit of madness. * Le Soleil *
This is very well done. It owes nothing to Stephen King and, as far as Im concerned, it is in nothing inferior to Stephen King. * Radio-Canada Indicatif Prsent *

Author Bio

Patrick Sencal was born in Drummondville, Quebec. He taught literature and cinema for several years, and, fascinated by suspense, fantasy, and terror, began writing to popular and critical acclaim in his native Quebec. Three of his novels have been adapted for film, and three other adaptations are currently under development in Quebec. He lives in Montreal, Canada, with his wife and two children. Visit him at PatrickSenecal.net.