The Devil's Numbers

by Graeme Hague

Air force F-111 pilot Russell Cross gets a near-fatal shock when his dead Gulf War friend reappears in the cockpit. A haunted German submarine in 1915 seems destined to plunge into oblivion, if the ghosts aboard will have their way. A computer expert meets a bizarre and terrible death.
A witness to all these seemingly random events is the ghostly spectre of Matthew, a young boy who in another lifetime opened the door to an unspeakable horror. Now Matthew is preparing to wreak havoc on a luxury super-liner that could be bound for the bottom of the sea, too. And Matthew’s going to take Russell Cross with him.
Anything can happen and you might count the cost with your life, when you start doing your sums with The Devil’s Numbers.

Author’s It occurred to me one day that as computers “crunch” numbers faster and faster, maybe we’re coming nearer to opening hidden doors that are best left closed? Creating cracks in our dimension and time by making calculations that should never be figured out and solving puzzles that should never be answered? This is the basic idea behind The Devil’s Numbers–new technology creating an opportunity for ancient evil to step through a gap into the present day. Added to this, I’ve adapted an old, true story about a haunted German U-boat during the First World War. I came across it when I was younger and it scared the hell out of me, because it rang as so genuine–so undoubtedly true in the real sense of the word.

I had a lot of fun bringing this book all together. There’s witchcraft from hundreds of years ago, ghosts from the beginning of the twentieth century and a whole, new kind of evil born in the world today.

416 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 29, 2011

About the author

I've been writing all kinds of books for many years, published in Australia, the UK, Germany and in the US. I started out writing horror, then crime thrillers and I've also written two historical war/romance novels. Nowadays I'm concentrating on my Lukas Boston series of detective novellas, which feature my sometimes rather black sense of humour which my friends have often told me to use in my books. The Lukas Boston books are proving great fun to create. I'm living with my beautiful wife in the south west of Western Australia along with three Great Danes and two donkeys.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the first book I read where I goes back and forth from characters/scenes. 2010 was when I read it. It was confusing at the beginning and in certain parts where I actually just skipped chapters. But at the end I fell in love and enjoyed the book