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[Back blurb] "Pleasant Grove, California, lives up to its name: a peaceful small town, where violent death means something which happens elsewhere, in the big city. Only the toxic dump waste mars the beauty of the wild surrounding country.
Then, under the endless blue summer skies, a nightmare spawns in their midst. It begins with wild animals, found hideously mutilated. Next, every last inmate of the local Animal Shelter is butchered with a cold methodical relentlessness. The victims are growing in size, which means the killer and its appetite are getting BIGGER. It leaves no footprints. Its saliva brims with poisons.
Finally, people are found horrifyingly slaughtered. For chief of Police Jerrod Rudd the case revives long-buried terrors of his own and as Pleasant Grove becomes a community under siege Rudd must contend with the unthinkable night and day.
Something inhuman has crawled from Hell to loose a blood-splashed reign of terror."
Then, under the endless blue summer skies, a nightmare spawns in their midst. It begins with wild animals, found hideously mutilated. Next, every last inmate of the local Animal Shelter is butchered with a cold methodical relentlessness. The victims are growing in size, which means the killer and its appetite are getting BIGGER. It leaves no footprints. Its saliva brims with poisons.
Finally, people are found horrifyingly slaughtered. For chief of Police Jerrod Rudd the case revives long-buried terrors of his own and as Pleasant Grove becomes a community under siege Rudd must contend with the unthinkable night and day.
Something inhuman has crawled from Hell to loose a blood-splashed reign of terror."
- GenresHorror
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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