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Gore Point
Adrian and Ray Porter have spent their lives battling demons that claw into our world through a thin a hellish and dead place with a black lake at its center, nicknamed "The Gore Point." But as the rifts begin to change and grow for the first time in decades, can they keep the planet from becoming Hell itself?
Adrian and his hotshot brother Ray work for Brigade One, in the walled-off city of Fortune on the outskirts of the Gore Point. Like their father before them, it's the Porters' job to protect citizens from the creatures that emerge from rifts opening inside the dead zone.
Nobody knows what the Gore Point is or where it came from. It cannot be eradicated. It cannot be closed. The Brigades can only offer triage. Demons have always come through ... and the only solution is to slaughter them when they do.
These days, few people die from the spawn that infiltrate Fortune from its rotted middle ... though as children, Ray and Adrian vividly remember watching their father do exactly that. But something has always struck intellectual Adrian as wrong about that day. The thing that killed their father (an enormous red beast called a hellbringer) wasn't supposed to be there. Adrian suspects there's something beneath the simplicity of modern riftfare, but bullheaded, showboating Ray thinks he's crazy.
Until one day, when the rifts suddenly and inexplicably change. It starts to look like Hell has been sandbagging to lull us into complacence ... with help from a saboteur on the inside.
Gore Point is a "horror thriller": a story about creatures from Hell and the human corruption behind their rise.
Adrian and his hotshot brother Ray work for Brigade One, in the walled-off city of Fortune on the outskirts of the Gore Point. Like their father before them, it's the Porters' job to protect citizens from the creatures that emerge from rifts opening inside the dead zone.
Nobody knows what the Gore Point is or where it came from. It cannot be eradicated. It cannot be closed. The Brigades can only offer triage. Demons have always come through ... and the only solution is to slaughter them when they do.
These days, few people die from the spawn that infiltrate Fortune from its rotted middle ... though as children, Ray and Adrian vividly remember watching their father do exactly that. But something has always struck intellectual Adrian as wrong about that day. The thing that killed their father (an enormous red beast called a hellbringer) wasn't supposed to be there. Adrian suspects there's something beneath the simplicity of modern riftfare, but bullheaded, showboating Ray thinks he's crazy.
Until one day, when the rifts suddenly and inexplicably change. It starts to look like Hell has been sandbagging to lull us into complacence ... with help from a saboteur on the inside.
Gore Point is a "horror thriller": a story about creatures from Hell and the human corruption behind their rise.
286 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 4, 2024
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Johnny B. Truant
193 books691 followersJohnny B. Truant is an author, blogger, and podcaster who, like the Ramones, was long denied induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame despite having a large cult following. He makes his online home at JohnnyBTruant.com and is the author of the Unicorn Western series, the Fat Vampire series, The Bialy Pimps, and a handful of other properties and growing every week.
You can connect with Johnny on Twitter at @JohnnyBTruant, and you should totally send him an email from JohnnyBTruant.com if the mood strikes you.
You can connect with Johnny on Twitter at @JohnnyBTruant, and you should totally send him an email from JohnnyBTruant.com if the mood strikes you.
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June 12, 2024
Once I started this book, I just couldn't put it down!
I wanted to know more about the brothers Ray and Adrian Porter, and also their father, Eldon, the most celebrated Legion ever. The brothers are part of the specialist Brigade One and fight the demons that come through from Hell. As events change for the worse, it appears that Ray and Adrian may hold the clues to a solution. Oh, that ending!! I need the next book, Johnny!
This is an excellent start to this series. The descriptions of the surroundings, the rifts and fiends, along with the fleshed-out main characters are first-rate and the story itself feels like a classic.
I enlisted in Kickstarter for this book, and I'll be doing the same for the second one.
I wanted to know more about the brothers Ray and Adrian Porter, and also their father, Eldon, the most celebrated Legion ever. The brothers are part of the specialist Brigade One and fight the demons that come through from Hell. As events change for the worse, it appears that Ray and Adrian may hold the clues to a solution. Oh, that ending!! I need the next book, Johnny!
This is an excellent start to this series. The descriptions of the surroundings, the rifts and fiends, along with the fleshed-out main characters are first-rate and the story itself feels like a classic.
I enlisted in Kickstarter for this book, and I'll be doing the same for the second one.
December 13, 2024
Wow, wow, wow!
What a story! Twists and turns, traitors and heroes, fiends and friends, it’s all here. Once I started I couldn’t put it down, I even had to take it to the restroom. You definitely have to read this series!
What a story! Twists and turns, traitors and heroes, fiends and friends, it’s all here. Once I started I couldn’t put it down, I even had to take it to the restroom. You definitely have to read this series!
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