Parasite

by Edward Wright

Something ancient and terrible has awoken. In the woods and towns of the Pacific Northwest, people are disappearing, dying horrible deaths. And those that don't die are being transformed in an even more horrible way. Rumors of a plague are spreading and entire towns are quarantined. The full weight of the armed forces is brought to bear against this menace. Scientists and the military race to find ways to thwart this menace -- or turn it to their own purposes. Shamans use their ancient knowledge to find a way to battle these monstrous beings as they continue to spread. Nothing seems to stop these ravenous creatures as they devour their prey in the most gruesome ways. Dixon must use his knowledge of the woods, his Special Forces training, and his strange connection to these creatures to find a way to stop them and save the woman he has fallen in love with. And this is only the beginning of the story. . .

314 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 23, 2019

About the author

Ed Wright grew up in Arkansas, where his father sold hardware and his mother raised three children and taught arts and crafts. He has degrees from Vanderbilt University (honors, English literature) and Northwestern University (master’s, journalism). He was an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard destroyers for three years. His first major career was journalism, and he worked as an editor at the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times.
At the Times, he specialized for several years in Middle East affairs and later was one of the senior editors on the foreign desk, helping supervise the work of three dozen foreign correspondents around the world and plan coverage of events ranging from the fall of the Soviet Union to the first Persian Gulf War. He later wrote the Times’ Travel Advisory column.
Ed's second career, fiction writing, led to the John Ray Horn mysteries, set in Los Angeles during the 1940s. The series has won four awards, including the Shamus Award and Britain’s Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award. He departed from the series with his next book, “Damnation Falls,” a contemporary mystery set in small-town Tennessee, which won the Barry Award. His most recent, the thriller "From Blood," was named one of the best mysteries of 2010 by the Financial Times of London.
Ed and his wife, Cathy, a psychotherapist, live in the Los Angeles area with Magic, an irrepressible female Belgian shepherd mix. At least once a year the three of them head off to the lakes and trails of the eastern Sierra Nevada.


Photo by Jennifer Leshnick

Reviews

[Sarah Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found the book to be intriguing and the suspense of what was going to happen next left me speechless. I would recommend this book if you want a good book to read