Second Death

by Peter Frost David

Jake Conner volunteered for a dangerous post at an undisclosed location to earn the quadruple hazard pay that would solve his family's financial problems. After the strangest job interview in history, Jake soon finds himself on America's newest Hell.

After a harrowing journey across the river Styxx, Jake begins his job at Fort Kaizen, the Army's forward operating base in the underworld. Working alongside US soldiers, both living and the returned-to-active-duty-dead, Jake takes charge of the refugee crisis that America's military action in the underworld has caused. But the mission soon evolves, and Jake finds his personal situation at odds with America’s war against Satan.

100 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 25, 2021

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Creep Cast sent me here

[Matt Sweeten · Rating 4 out of 5]

First all creep cast made me purchase this book and I’m glad I did, as I first delved in I wasn’t sure were anything was going to go as it all seemed kind of silly, but as the book progressed I found myself more enveloped in the plot and wanting to reach the end, I need more stories in this universe.

[Brien · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun short story! Well thought out world building with very effective and efficient story telling.

[Richard Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Creep Cast sent me here, and Second Death starts off with an interesting premise. The army has invaded Hell and wants to kill Satan. Second Death has a fun idea, great descriptions, and is actually really funny at times. But the book is just too short. It just kind of ends. This would be a great post on r/nosleep, heck even a great episode of Creep Cast. But as a book, it just sort of ends. I feel like if we got 50-100 more pages, it’d be a better story. A fine effort from Peter Frost David, and I want to read more from him. But hopefully something a little longer

[Cameron Weber · Rating 1 out of 5]

Cool concept but poorly written.

[Phil · Rating 3 out of 5]

I came across Peter Frost David's writing after listening to the CreepCast episode about his Glenmont metro story. I loved his writing style and immediately read all his other reddit stories and, once I finished them all, I immediately bought this book. While I do wish it were a little longer, I still found that this book does a pretty good job of tying each of his previous works together, and I hope there will be more books connected to the Glenmont/Second Death universe to come.

[Cole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ordered this after Peter Frost David's r/nosleep work was featured on Creep Cast. This book leaves me with the same hunger for more about this universe.
Even though I loved the r/nosleep stories, the idea of the US military in Hell felt very silly at first.
But gotta say, it weirdly works?
Would love to read more fleshed out and polished work in this series.

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decided to pick up because of Creep Cast. Was not disappointed.

[Hunter Wright · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had so much potential but I feel that a lot of it was wasted. The characters were all just cardboard cutouts that you could replace with anyone and nothing would change. For a story with a first person perspective the main character gives very little in the way of opinions and descriptions about things as well that would help develop his personality. The premise was cool and unique and was the only thing that kept me going. The world of hell and the way everything worked was cool but I have to say if you think about the premise too much you'll start to poke a lot of holes in the story like why the fuck in the military using civilians in the most dangerous area where they could easily die at any moment. Also please next book get an editor or a better editor. I hope this author keeps going because I can feel there is something here just work on characters more and slowing the pace down a bit to allow things to develop and I think this author could go places.

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some really interesting ideas and concepts here, but I'm in the same boat as most here this just sort of ends. Brings up a lot of cool questions, but doesn't really provide a lot of answers. This kind of feels like the first section of a novel, rather than a full novella. However, the author still did a great job setting up the world here, and I'd love to see more published works that take place in this world.

[Erica Deditch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly, hell yea. It was a weird little story but I kinda liked it.

[Ian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome concept, love where he takes the idea of this book, just want a fuller longer version of this book.

[Samantha Halsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️

This was a very interesting premise! I really liked this idea of Hell, but I just wish that the author was able to expand on the story a bit.

[Mykal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great start and really strong world building but no satisfying ending is bringing this from 4 down to 3 stars. I'm left wanting more which is both good and a bit frustrating!

[Grimey Dude · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun world building but the story itself was pretty boring