Imago

by Lee Perry

As a young engineering student races to save his boyfriend from a brain-altering parasite, he uncovers a massive conspiracy involving malevolent hypnosis, genetic manipulation, and murderous, mutant-fly children. Behind all the carnage is a group of psychologists trying to create a new race of beings designed for a dying world.

Written like a cross between David Cronenberg'sThe Fly (1986) and Marc Webb’s 500 Days of Summer (2009), Imago is a full-force gore fest, with just the right amount of brains to make it the kind of campy pulp novel that will have you remembering it long after the nightmares have ended.

289 pages, Paperback

Published January 22, 2025

About the author

Lee Perry was born in 1984 in Pembury, Kent. His youth was spent growing up in the sleepy villages of Sussex where he went to school. An encounter with Second World War veterans sparked not only lasting friendships, but an interest in History and in particular Military History. He served a brief period of time with the Territorial Army and is now an author and teacher in Tonbridge, Kent where he lives with his family. He is a regular visitor to France, in particularly Normandy and the Lot region of South West France where his mother and father live.

Desert Rose is his first published novel, inspired by the veteran friends he had made in the past and his family. The novel is set in both the south coast of Sussex England and the empty desert of North Africa during World war two. The story follows the story of John Baker who is leading his company of soldiers through the inferno of desert warfare and his sister Sophie who has been left to grow up alone. Whilst apart they discover much about each other, secrets are revealed that only the desert could have provided.