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Billy
Published 1990
Terror crosses a new, horrific border: A psychopathic kidnapper becomes so deranged that his sadistic fantasies are indistinguishable from reality, and a child’s nightmares become his only comfort while he prays for death as his only escape.
     Presented from both Billy’s and his kidnapper’s points of view, Billy is a story so terrifying – and yet so passionately committed to the value of the human spirit – that it will leave you breathless.

Billy
© 1990 Wilson & Neff, Inc.
Synopsis courtesy of G.P. Putnam's Sons


Synopsis

The Wild
Written in 1986, Published Feb 1991
(paperback-only release in US, hardcover in UK only from Macdonald, London)

Wolf dreams. Bob Duke dreamed of becoming a wolf. Of running free on four strong legs. Howling. Stalking. Living with nature, in nature. Then his dream came true – and threatened to become a nightmare. Bob’s wife and son vow to restore his humanity. But even if they can find him – a man-wolf loose in the concrete forests of Manhattan – will he even want to become human again? Once set free, no cage can hold back...The Wild.

The Wild
© 1991Wilson & Neff, Inc.
Synopsis courtesy of TOR Books



Synopsis

Unholy Fire
Published March 1992

Controversial bestselling author Whitley Strieber continues his extraordinary search into the depths of evil with this powerful novel of psychological terror and demonic possession.
     Father John Rafferty is plunged into scandal when a young woman he has been counseling is murdered in his Greenwich Village church. It is the first act in a dark and dreadful drama, for this is no isolated crime of violence but the manifestation of a spiritual plague so deep and subtle it will test every fiber of faith and courage in his soul. But there is even more shock when the New York police, probing the victim’s past, uncovers her bizarre and never suspected hidden life.
     Now truly shaken, Father Rafferty is beset by doubts and tortured by the demon – whatever face it wears – who seeks to destroy the faith he is trying to uphold. But Father Rafferty known he must overcome his horror and emerge from the devil’s shadow if he is to tap the priesthood’s ageless power to triumph over forces from hell.
     In this startling, passionately felt tale of scandal and murder, Whitley Strieber focuses a searing spotlight on a dedicated priest as he knowingly explores the inner workings of the church and reveals the very human depths of a true man of God. From its powerful opening to its nerve-shattering climax, Unholy Fire crackles with suspense as it opens a dark window to seductive evil – and graphically portrays the relentless struggle between the flesh and the spirit. As vivid and intense as the New York City is pictures, this is a novel to hold you spellbound – and shake you to your depths.

Unholy Fire
© 1992 Wilson & Neff, Inc.
Synopsis courtesy of Penquin Books USA Inc.
Working Title(s): Act of Faith, Fathernight


Synopsis

The Forbidden Zone
Published July 1993

Every small town has a special place like the mound. Lovers go these to woo, families picnic in summer, children sled in winter. For the community of Oscola, New York, the mound has never been dangerous...until now.
     Now something beyond cunning or imagining, something that appears undeniably evil is hiding beneath the mound. The terror comes from out of time, space, and the depths of the human mind with its alien needs and desires. It spreads its roots in secret...changing, transforming, reshaping reality. It seeks to sweep aside all that the good townfolk love and cherish: their past, their hopes, the promise of their souls. It fills the innocent earth with its presence – it screams with power.
     How can ordinary people protect themselves from this evil? How can they fight its weapon of soul-breaking potency – a sweetly seductive yet unspeakably savage pleasure too intense to resist? Brian Kelly, a courageous physicist still grieving over the hideous death of his first wife and child, suspects that the shell of reality must have been torn to let in this monstrosity. He must discover a way to repair the rift. His very pregnant second wife, Loi, a beautiful and intelligent refugee from the pain of Vietnam, has battled demons before. She’s ready to dare anything to save her unborn son. The tough yet dangerously vulnerable Ellen Maas, a big-city reporter trying to revive the local paper, must finally commit to destroying the beast – or perish herself. Bob West, a cop who saw every kind of madness and violence during the war, will return to the law of the jungle – or worse – if it will save his family.
     They must band together to unmask and defeat the invincible evil beneath the mound. But even in their most private imaginings they cannot conceive of the power they will confront and the vengeance it can wreak on any who oppose its design of conquest. Only an impossible gamble will give the town of Oscola a chance to prevail, and only Brian and Loi know the stakes.

The Forbidden Zone
© 1993 Wilson & Neff, Inc
Synopsis courtesy of Penquin Books USA Inc.