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Exhumation: A Novel
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Expected 20 Oct 26A London P.I. investigates the disappearance of a young woman with ties to an underground cult whose roots reach deeper than he could have possibly imagined
Arlo Abbas has never shied away from a challenge. As a private investigator in London with a complicated past, he doesn’t have that luxury. But when he finds £10,000 deposited into his nearly empty bank account and a note stuffed in his mailbox that says “Find Sophie Banik,” he realizes this is no ordinary missing-persons case.
But the deeper Arlo delves, the more horrific truths reveal themselves: Sophie was murdered five months ago. A clandestine lab is performing human trials that blur the lines between life and death. And a mysterious underground organisation—part cult, part bizarre scientific experiment—toils toward some unknown end deep in the bowels of the earth.
In Exhumation, Nicholas Binge has written an edge-of-your-seat speculative thriller that’s also a gripping exploration of fanaticism, mythology, and morality. A psychological journey through grief and generational trauma, Exhumation explores our human impulse to bury our secrets and how the path to truth can be the most painful to tread.
Arlo Abbas has never shied away from a challenge. As a private investigator in London with a complicated past, he doesn’t have that luxury. But when he finds £10,000 deposited into his nearly empty bank account and a note stuffed in his mailbox that says “Find Sophie Banik,” he realizes this is no ordinary missing-persons case.
But the deeper Arlo delves, the more horrific truths reveal themselves: Sophie was murdered five months ago. A clandestine lab is performing human trials that blur the lines between life and death. And a mysterious underground organisation—part cult, part bizarre scientific experiment—toils toward some unknown end deep in the bowels of the earth.
In Exhumation, Nicholas Binge has written an edge-of-your-seat speculative thriller that’s also a gripping exploration of fanaticism, mythology, and morality. A psychological journey through grief and generational trauma, Exhumation explores our human impulse to bury our secrets and how the path to truth can be the most painful to tread.
448 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication October 20, 2026
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About the author
Nicholas Binge
7 books610 followersNicholas Binge is a bestselling author of speculative thrillers that blend big sci-fi concepts with psychological horror. His latest novel, Dissolution, was hailed as one of the best thrillers of 2025 by The New York Times and is being adapted into a major motion picture by Sony Pictures, with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Birdbox) penning the script.
His breakout novel Ascension was a New York Times Editor's Choice Pick, finalist for the Goodreads' Choice Awards and Ignotus Award, and named a best book of 2023 by Vulture, Goodreads, The LA Times, and The Sunday Times. It is also being adapted for film. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages and featured across major international outlets from The Guardian to Entertainment Weekly.
Binge has lived across Asia and Europe — from Singapore to Switzerland to Hong Kong —before settling in Edinburgh, where he lectures in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University and co-hosts the Binge Reading Book Club podcast. Beyond fiction, he has written for The Guardian, Literary Hub, and other leading outlets, and is a regular speaker at book festivals across Scotland and the UK.
His next novel, Extremity, arrives September 2025.
His breakout novel Ascension was a New York Times Editor's Choice Pick, finalist for the Goodreads' Choice Awards and Ignotus Award, and named a best book of 2023 by Vulture, Goodreads, The LA Times, and The Sunday Times. It is also being adapted for film. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages and featured across major international outlets from The Guardian to Entertainment Weekly.
Binge has lived across Asia and Europe — from Singapore to Switzerland to Hong Kong —before settling in Edinburgh, where he lectures in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University and co-hosts the Binge Reading Book Club podcast. Beyond fiction, he has written for The Guardian, Literary Hub, and other leading outlets, and is a regular speaker at book festivals across Scotland and the UK.
His next novel, Extremity, arrives September 2025.
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