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The Storm Giants
What makes a boy turn to the dark side? Nature? Nurture?
What can make a man turn his back on everything he’s ever held for true? Make him walk away from the money, the willing women, the power over people. From the terror he sees in their eyes when the storm giants come out to play.
Doctor Dauffenbach’s widow is knocking on Everett’s door, talking like they’re still an item. It’s unfortunate there’s so many obstacles in the way of making her heart stop.
Everett’s wife Kerri is beginning to suspect his history with the widow, and she’s forced to examine things about their life together that she’s successfully ignored since the beginning.
Everett’s mom Bambi is on her death bed and still manages to foul things up for him. Maybe she did try to rescue him from the storm giants when he was a kid – but she never tried to rescue him from the things he saw under her roof.
Everett’s son Raymond trusts him to keep the howling winds of chaos away. But to keep his family alive he has to break every promise, and return to the crazy-clown, evil-funhouse mindset he thought he’d left forever.
Throughout, the treacherous storm giants will be his only friends. They’ll help him review the lessons he learned as a child: that blood isn’t shy about spilling, and that it always means something to somebody when people leak.
Everett knows the catechism of violence to his core, and there can’t possibly be any fairy tale ending for him and his.
Can there?
What can make a man turn his back on everything he’s ever held for true? Make him walk away from the money, the willing women, the power over people. From the terror he sees in their eyes when the storm giants come out to play.
Doctor Dauffenbach’s widow is knocking on Everett’s door, talking like they’re still an item. It’s unfortunate there’s so many obstacles in the way of making her heart stop.
Everett’s wife Kerri is beginning to suspect his history with the widow, and she’s forced to examine things about their life together that she’s successfully ignored since the beginning.
Everett’s mom Bambi is on her death bed and still manages to foul things up for him. Maybe she did try to rescue him from the storm giants when he was a kid – but she never tried to rescue him from the things he saw under her roof.
Everett’s son Raymond trusts him to keep the howling winds of chaos away. But to keep his family alive he has to break every promise, and return to the crazy-clown, evil-funhouse mindset he thought he’d left forever.
Throughout, the treacherous storm giants will be his only friends. They’ll help him review the lessons he learned as a child: that blood isn’t shy about spilling, and that it always means something to somebody when people leak.
Everett knows the catechism of violence to his core, and there can’t possibly be any fairy tale ending for him and his.
Can there?
206 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 11, 2012
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About the author
Pearce Hansen
10 books83 followersPearce Hansen is the author of Street Raised//https://www.amazon.com/Street-Raised-....
Pearce Hansen is an Oakland native residing in Seattle with his wife Pia. Pearce's fiction is inspired by events and experiences from his youth growing up in the East Bay.
He's been writing 20 years with over 100 publications including three novels, one short story collection and six anthology inclusions. He's an alumnus of Anthony Neil Smith's legendary Plots With Guns! and Todd Robinson's Thuglit. He's been reviewed by Eddie Muller in the SF Chronicle, and blurbed by Joe Lansdale, Michael Shea, Ken Bruen and Laird Barron. His work's been translated into Finnish and Spanish, and adapted as a limited edition comic book.
Pearce Hansen is an Oakland native residing in Seattle with his wife Pia. Pearce's fiction is inspired by events and experiences from his youth growing up in the East Bay.
He's been writing 20 years with over 100 publications including three novels, one short story collection and six anthology inclusions. He's an alumnus of Anthony Neil Smith's legendary Plots With Guns! and Todd Robinson's Thuglit. He's been reviewed by Eddie Muller in the SF Chronicle, and blurbed by Joe Lansdale, Michael Shea, Ken Bruen and Laird Barron. His work's been translated into Finnish and Spanish, and adapted as a limited edition comic book.
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November 3, 2014
I've read most of Pearce Hansen's work at this point, and I've loved them all. The Storm Giants, on the other hand, is without a doubt THE BEST work this author has produced so far, and this says a lot, considering how fantastic his other books are. Gritty and intense but filled with humanity, characters so real and filled with depth you completely forget that these people have been conjured from the author's imagination. This book, in my opinion, should already be on the best seller list, or at the very least it belongs on a shelf alongside George V. Higgins and Elmore Leonard.
I read a LOT of crime novels, both new and old, and can easily say that The Storm Giants is the best crime novel I've read this year. So take note. This is one you definitely don't want to miss.
I read a LOT of crime novels, both new and old, and can easily say that The Storm Giants is the best crime novel I've read this year. So take note. This is one you definitely don't want to miss.
January 16, 2018
This is serious Noir, the plot moves quickly. Through the book the protagonist is working to live the life he wants, yet held back by his past and the mistrust he has acquired. After enjoying Stagger Bay, I thought I would like another of Pearce Hansen's books. The Storm Giants did not disappoint me.
February 3, 2016
Storm giants
I gave this book 3 stars because although I enjoyed the story it dragged on quite a bit.
The main character Everett was a brutal but fair man. It was quite hard to follow the stream of thought sometimes.
I am still confused about the ending.
I gave this book 3 stars because although I enjoyed the story it dragged on quite a bit.
The main character Everett was a brutal but fair man. It was quite hard to follow the stream of thought sometimes.
I am still confused about the ending.
March 31, 2014
Loved it. Definitely his best work to date. Great characters, excellent dialog, loved the story. Kept me guessing until the end. Read it.
May 27, 2014
Scary
Twists are expected, but you love them and feel guilty for it. Characters are hard shelled and complicated but great. very good storytelling. VERY graphic death episodes.
Twists are expected, but you love them and feel guilty for it. Characters are hard shelled and complicated but great. very good storytelling. VERY graphic death episodes.
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