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The Roger Huntington Saga #4
Suffer to Survive
Only recently, Roger Huntington was operating out of Berlin, where he was part of a shadowy organization tracking down killers. Now he's back in his hometown where the brutal murder of his late best friend's father has left the local police with more questions than answers--a murder that echoes the torture he and Tooth suffered in Skinny Man's basement so many years ago.
Wading through the dark memories hanging over the town--his sister's death, his mother's eroding sanity--he must confront the possibility that a new killer is lurking in the shadows. Partnering with his old friend, Sheriff Teddy, the man who once saved him from death, Roger now delves back into the madness of an evil world that refuses to leave him alone in the hopes of bringing peace both to his community and himself.
But the world isn't fair, and Roger is about to face his darkest days yet.
Wading through the dark memories hanging over the town--his sister's death, his mother's eroding sanity--he must confront the possibility that a new killer is lurking in the shadows. Partnering with his old friend, Sheriff Teddy, the man who once saved him from death, Roger now delves back into the madness of an evil world that refuses to leave him alone in the hopes of bringing peace both to his community and himself.
But the world isn't fair, and Roger is about to face his darkest days yet.
- GenresHorror
239 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 31, 2025
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Ryan C. Thomas
55 books408 followersI am the author of the novels The Summer I Died, Ratings Game, Born to Bleed, Salticidae, Undead World of Oz, Hissers and more. I hope to learn a lot from the readers on this site, and get some good book recs in the process. Thanks!
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November 13, 2025
OMG! Screaming, crying, throwing up. I loved this book so much. I had been impatiently awaiting its release for so long and it lived up to my wildest dreams. Ryan C Thomas doesn’t again. I LOVE ROGER. I can’t get enough of him and these books. This installment in his saga is the best since the first. The Summer I Died left an impact on me like no other book. The second one was great, the third one wasn’t as great, but still loved cause it’s Roger, but this one picked it right back up. These books make me gag, think “wtf am I reading!?”, they make me cry, they make me laugh. I just love them. Ryan can write about Roger for an eternity and I’ll gobble up every bit of it.
November 7, 2025
I loved this book. I’ve loved every book in this series.
I enjoyed book one so much that it inspired me to start writing myself.
Roger’s journey has been a crazy one to say the least. I don’t think anyone could have predicted the twists and turns his story has taken.
This new one felt like we were getting back to the old Roger. Book one Roger. Only now he had the experience to handle things better.
It’s a crazy story. It’s filled with action. It’s filled with some extremely gross stuff, but it’s done well. That horrible stuff is essential to the storyline and it doesn’t feel at all done for just gross out factor. You take it for what it is and you hope the gross guys get their comeuppance.
I’d highly recommend this book to extreme horror readers and normal horror readers alike. Hell, I even think it would be enjoyed by Thriller readers, but you do owe it to yourself to read the first three as well or you’ll be pretty lost.
5/5 give me more. I’m ready.
I enjoyed book one so much that it inspired me to start writing myself.
Roger’s journey has been a crazy one to say the least. I don’t think anyone could have predicted the twists and turns his story has taken.
This new one felt like we were getting back to the old Roger. Book one Roger. Only now he had the experience to handle things better.
It’s a crazy story. It’s filled with action. It’s filled with some extremely gross stuff, but it’s done well. That horrible stuff is essential to the storyline and it doesn’t feel at all done for just gross out factor. You take it for what it is and you hope the gross guys get their comeuppance.
I’d highly recommend this book to extreme horror readers and normal horror readers alike. Hell, I even think it would be enjoyed by Thriller readers, but you do owe it to yourself to read the first three as well or you’ll be pretty lost.
5/5 give me more. I’m ready.
January 10, 2026
so good!
This is the best book I’ve read in quite a while! I hope he is not done with this series!
This is the best book I’ve read in quite a while! I hope he is not done with this series!
December 1, 2025
I’ve waited so long for this book. And it didn’t disappoint. Maniac necrophiliacs and well served justice. The way he writes and describes things…..I will have nightmares for days and I am not mad about it. The undulating sex pit. The golden unicorn dick mask. Blood and gore. Roger finally finds his niche….CANT WAIT for the next one!!!!!!!! Let the saga continue!
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October 22, 2025
Wow, what a wild ride! This is an excellent new entry in the Roger Huntington series, a direct sequel to the last book (which I wasn't all that crazy about, though I loved the first two). It picks up exactly where we last saw Roger: going back home from Berlin, Germany, to unearth what exactly happened to Tooth's dad, who was found murdered. Roger and his friend cop Teddy (now a Sheriff himself) start digging, and discover another new low for humanity, when they stumble upon a sort of a fetish group up in Canada. And this group's fetish is deadly - in more ways than one!
Roger is no longer a victim, as in the first two books; since the third book, he's a deeply traumatized version of Dexter, the "serial killer killer," showing some attitude but carrying also a very deep sense of humanity, empathy, and compassion. He's no psychopath, but he's cursed with the power to attract all kinds of psychopaths and messed up situations - and surviving them. The metaphysics haven't been precisely worked out just yet, - but Roger’s life since his twenties has been a constant struggle to secure a place for himself devoid of the insanity, the torture, and the carnage he's experienced first-hand during the summer he died inside.
I always enjoy Roger's more or.less imaginary banter with Tooth, his dead friend. This volume thankfully brings it back, along with conversations with the Skinny Man. The book also powers up the gore machine, throwing Roger and Teddy right into the sickest and most perverted neighborhood of hell! That said, the story's also character-driven, with lots of entertaining dialogue, fast-paced, with very strong thriller vibes (since it's about a murder investigation, after all).
What I was not at all prepared for was the ending. It hurt. Roger is definitely a psychopath attractor; no doubt about it after this part of the story. And though he's no superhero, it seems that his life is pushing him to become one. Perhaps all those snarky comics references (the best being when Roger drops the X-Men reference of "Remy and Rogue" lol) are to blame!
I highly recommend the book both as an awesome addition to the series, and a good point for new readers to join the fun. The book is not a standalone, but it's not impenetrable to newcomers either! Pick it up and treat yourself to some terrific extreme horror fiction by a master storyteller of the genre!
Roger is no longer a victim, as in the first two books; since the third book, he's a deeply traumatized version of Dexter, the "serial killer killer," showing some attitude but carrying also a very deep sense of humanity, empathy, and compassion. He's no psychopath, but he's cursed with the power to attract all kinds of psychopaths and messed up situations - and surviving them. The metaphysics haven't been precisely worked out just yet, - but Roger’s life since his twenties has been a constant struggle to secure a place for himself devoid of the insanity, the torture, and the carnage he's experienced first-hand during the summer he died inside.
I always enjoy Roger's more or.less imaginary banter with Tooth, his dead friend. This volume thankfully brings it back, along with conversations with the Skinny Man. The book also powers up the gore machine, throwing Roger and Teddy right into the sickest and most perverted neighborhood of hell! That said, the story's also character-driven, with lots of entertaining dialogue, fast-paced, with very strong thriller vibes (since it's about a murder investigation, after all).
What I was not at all prepared for was the ending. It hurt. Roger is definitely a psychopath attractor; no doubt about it after this part of the story. And though he's no superhero, it seems that his life is pushing him to become one. Perhaps all those snarky comics references (the best being when Roger drops the X-Men reference of "Remy and Rogue" lol) are to blame!
I highly recommend the book both as an awesome addition to the series, and a good point for new readers to join the fun. The book is not a standalone, but it's not impenetrable to newcomers either! Pick it up and treat yourself to some terrific extreme horror fiction by a master storyteller of the genre!
November 11, 2025
Roger just can’t catch a break, and things just get increasingly worse for him. It got better and better and I was incredibly engaged with each new chapter. I’m very sad about how much loss Roger has to live with and what happened in this one was a hard blow. I liked how Roger accepted his fate and the way he described his complacence with himself. Mayhap we will get another?
November 1, 2025
A fantastic addition to the Roger Huntington saga. It keeps the tone of “Born to Bleed” and “Scars of the Broken” while calling back to “The Summer I Died” in both obvious and subtle ways. The writing in the buildup to the conflict especially mimicked that of “The Summer I Died,” which was a great choice by the author. It took the right amount of time to build characters up before throwing them into the main conflict. There was plenty of guts and gore, as well as tense character exploration.
The fast pacing of the second half worked great, although the final conflict felt a bit rushed, which carried through to the ending. I would’ve liked a bit more elaboration in some of the final scenes.
If this is where Ryan C. Thomas chooses to end the series here, it feels like a satisfying conclusion. However, he left the door open for more installments, which I would certainly be interested in reading.
The fast pacing of the second half worked great, although the final conflict felt a bit rushed, which carried through to the ending. I would’ve liked a bit more elaboration in some of the final scenes.
If this is where Ryan C. Thomas chooses to end the series here, it feels like a satisfying conclusion. However, he left the door open for more installments, which I would certainly be interested in reading.
December 30, 2025
A Worthy 4th Installment
It took me less than a day to finish this novel. It was a fast, easy read. It picks up right where Scars Of The Broken left off, with Roger Huntington returning to his home town to look into the murder of his friend Tooth's father. His investigation reconnects him with Officer Teddy, the cop who saved his life in The Summer I Died. Together, they travel north into Canada looking to connect the dots they've uncovered, and encounter another group of depraved sickos.
Pros:
I really enjoyed the banter between Teddy and Roger. Their conversation and friendship is real and natural.
Tooth is still well represented here, which I loved. There is a line near the novel's end that speaks of them being one now, and that's evident and well written as Roger moves ahead in life, embodying his friend's courageous qualities and realizing them as his own.
I was plenty shocked. Ryan C. Thomas is the only author I've read that makes me clap my hand over my mouth and say "holy shit!" over an unexpected turn of events. There certainly was one of those in the death of a major character. There's plenty of gore too, all fantastically described.
As a lover of horror films, I enjoy and catch all of the references he makes to them.
The ending leaves the door open for more Roger Huntington, and I would love to read about where his life takes him next.
It took me less than a day to finish this novel. It was a fast, easy read. It picks up right where Scars Of The Broken left off, with Roger Huntington returning to his home town to look into the murder of his friend Tooth's father. His investigation reconnects him with Officer Teddy, the cop who saved his life in The Summer I Died. Together, they travel north into Canada looking to connect the dots they've uncovered, and encounter another group of depraved sickos.
Pros:
I really enjoyed the banter between Teddy and Roger. Their conversation and friendship is real and natural.
Tooth is still well represented here, which I loved. There is a line near the novel's end that speaks of them being one now, and that's evident and well written as Roger moves ahead in life, embodying his friend's courageous qualities and realizing them as his own.
I was plenty shocked. Ryan C. Thomas is the only author I've read that makes me clap my hand over my mouth and say "holy shit!" over an unexpected turn of events. There certainly was one of those in the death of a major character. There's plenty of gore too, all fantastically described.
As a lover of horror films, I enjoy and catch all of the references he makes to them.
The ending leaves the door open for more Roger Huntington, and I would love to read about where his life takes him next.
November 29, 2025
4.5/5
A lot has happened since we last heard from Roger Huntington-COVID and the rollout of AI assblasters if we're talking about the biggies, so I was curious to see what America's favorite "serial killer who tracks down serial killers" was up to. This is a direct followup to "Scars of the Broken" (my personal favorite with the saga), so we're still in 2016 or 2017. If you didn't like "Scars", then you probably won't like "Suffer" because it obviously follows the same timeline and utilizes the same characters.
The first entry, TSID, that made Roger a splatterpunk anti-hero is also referenced a lot, but through telekinesis. We absorb Roger's thoughts and hilarious post-punk worldviews with these passages, and much needed clarity is provided for Roger's supernatural abilities. I felt that this new adventure had a far more serious narrative with some deeper meaning.
All of these ideas intersect with part 4, which finds Roger taking on some sickos in the backwoods of Quebec! Disturbing, mysterious and funny as hell. Worth the wait.
A lot has happened since we last heard from Roger Huntington-COVID and the rollout of AI assblasters if we're talking about the biggies, so I was curious to see what America's favorite "serial killer who tracks down serial killers" was up to. This is a direct followup to "Scars of the Broken" (my personal favorite with the saga), so we're still in 2016 or 2017. If you didn't like "Scars", then you probably won't like "Suffer" because it obviously follows the same timeline and utilizes the same characters.
The first entry, TSID, that made Roger a splatterpunk anti-hero is also referenced a lot, but through telekinesis. We absorb Roger's thoughts and hilarious post-punk worldviews with these passages, and much needed clarity is provided for Roger's supernatural abilities. I felt that this new adventure had a far more serious narrative with some deeper meaning.
All of these ideas intersect with part 4, which finds Roger taking on some sickos in the backwoods of Quebec! Disturbing, mysterious and funny as hell. Worth the wait.
November 20, 2025
Roger's story continues and it just keeps getting better! This book literally made my stomach turn a few times. The gore and brutality was definitely kicked up a notch on this one and I thank the author greatly for that! There are so many twists and turns that will leave you on the edge of your seat and exhausted. I can't wait to see what else could possibly be throw Roger's way.
December 11, 2025
getting through the nihilism and depravity in these books genuinely feels like mental torture sometimes, but the character work is too delicious to ever put them down.. roger huntington could return for his 50th book and i’ll still be sat. amazing and heartbreaking as always, no notes; undoubtedly my favourite saga.
November 1, 2025
My jaw DROPPED at two different parts in this book. To say I was shocked was an understatement. Roger always stands on business to protect anyone and I admire that so much.
Roger is such a freaking BADASS!
Roger is such a freaking BADASS!
November 28, 2025
I hadn't read the first three in the series for a while. I had forgotten the savagery that he writes with. The first instance in the book and I chuckled to myself because I knew this ride was going to be wild. I was 100% not let down. Another great book in the series!
December 28, 2025
I’m still speechless at how deeply a book can shock and captivate you. I love every single installment in the series, but the fourth book is even more emotional than the others. I desperately need a fifth part right now — the Roger Huntington Saga has to continue!
November 10, 2025
This did not disappoint. SO fking good.
November 11, 2025
wtf. that was... teddy!!!
January 8, 2026
Roger just can’t catch a break
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