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The Wolf
Part human, part wolf spider, one hundred percent predator!
After being infected by arachnoids in a London subway, Captain Marcus Callow and his unit are on compassionate leave after the killing of one of their team. Part of the clean-up crew at the farm where Kyle Fisher (The Hunter) met his fate, Marcus’ unit have been debriefed on what to expect following infection, but instead of handing themselves in, they choose to use what little time they have left to spend with their loved ones.
Private Wyatt Vermeulen, however, has different ideas. He knows how powerful he is after he chooses to embrace the infection, trying to persuade the rest of his unit to join him in dining on mere humans. Following vivid dreams in a sewer, Wyatt knows he has a mission: to retrieve and protect a very special egg.
Humans rarely fare well against arachnoids, but no one has gone up against a psychotic human-Wolf Spider with a taste for human flesh before. And certainly not against one with such a clear goal: to protect a new breed of arachnoid, one that if allowed to evolve, could spell the end of mankind.
When the fates of Marcus and Wyatt collide, there can only be one outcome, one winner.
After being infected by arachnoids in a London subway, Captain Marcus Callow and his unit are on compassionate leave after the killing of one of their team. Part of the clean-up crew at the farm where Kyle Fisher (The Hunter) met his fate, Marcus’ unit have been debriefed on what to expect following infection, but instead of handing themselves in, they choose to use what little time they have left to spend with their loved ones.
Private Wyatt Vermeulen, however, has different ideas. He knows how powerful he is after he chooses to embrace the infection, trying to persuade the rest of his unit to join him in dining on mere humans. Following vivid dreams in a sewer, Wyatt knows he has a mission: to retrieve and protect a very special egg.
Humans rarely fare well against arachnoids, but no one has gone up against a psychotic human-Wolf Spider with a taste for human flesh before. And certainly not against one with such a clear goal: to protect a new breed of arachnoid, one that if allowed to evolve, could spell the end of mankind.
When the fates of Marcus and Wyatt collide, there can only be one outcome, one winner.
169 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 17, 2022
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About the author
D.C. Brockwell
26 books25 followersD C Brockwell lives in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, with his wife, Beks and rescue cat, Olivia. He works as a dental technician for Elite Dental Studios in the day, and writes crime/horror/action and adventure/romance stories in the evenings and weekends. After completing his dental technicians’ course at Lambeth College in March 2018, he sat down and started taking his writing more seriously, completing five first drafts of novels in a year.
A graduate of criminology and criminal justice studies at the University of Portsmouth, he has always had an interest in crime, specifically abnormal psychology. It was while studying criminology that he penned his first (unpublished) novel, which, he says, will never see the light of day.
He self-published his first romance novel, The Southern Belles in July 2019, under his pseudonym, Katie Simpkins, a name both he and Beks chose together.
His first crime novel is a contemporary and gritty crime drama.
A graduate of criminology and criminal justice studies at the University of Portsmouth, he has always had an interest in crime, specifically abnormal psychology. It was while studying criminology that he penned his first (unpublished) novel, which, he says, will never see the light of day.
He self-published his first romance novel, The Southern Belles in July 2019, under his pseudonym, Katie Simpkins, a name both he and Beks chose together.
His first crime novel is a contemporary and gritty crime drama.
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June 20, 2022
This series just gets better and better. The horror, gore and general hideousness just oozes from every page and this is the best one so far.
As an arachnophobe it's not often I find a story that genuinely chills me in the way this one did. Vile, but all the better for it.
As an arachnophobe it's not often I find a story that genuinely chills me in the way this one did. Vile, but all the better for it.
June 2, 2022
I have really enjoyed this series. To explain my rating system, three is a good book. Four is something that makes me think deeper. Five is something mind blowing or I think everyone should read. So three is actually a good score from me :). Hell, I cared enough to enter the book on Goodreads since it wasn’t originally there.
May 28, 2022
In this brilliant third instalment, Captain Marcus Callow and his unit, infected by arachnoids, have very different ideas of how to spend their time before they change. And their differences really set the scene for this terrifying and bloody book. Right from the start, the pace was relentless and the action dragged me along on this horrific rollercoaster of a read. Some scenes were pretty stomach churning, ( a feat D C Brockwell excels in), but there were a few moments where I could feel nothing but sympathy for one of the characters. I raced through this book, almost all the while squirming whilst I could feel the spiders of my own imagination creeping over my skin. This series really does get better with each book and while I can’t wait for the next one , I’ll be keeping a wary eye out for anything which is bigger than it should be
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