![]() Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. In this realm where the negative is the norm, the reader feels at sea, without even the life saver of an examination of the iconic outsider to hold on to. Buy Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season Signed, Limited by Partridge, Norman (ISBN: 9781587672231) from Amazon's Book Store. Saunders kills the innocent as well as the guilty with little regret and is never provided with sufficient motivation, however warped, to do so. Best known for the darkly humorous gonzo noir mass-market Jack Baddalach novels (Ten-Ounce Siesta, etc.), Patridge here denies the reader both irony and empathy. ![]() Partridge creates a world where the most sympathetic character is a ghost and the hero's only redeeming aspect is his attachment to that ghost. Vivid writing, lightning pace and true originality make this novel a genuine page-turner, but an unrelenting and disturbingly amoral one. Impelled by an immediate need to save his own skin as well as a compulsion to somehow save a little girl ghost, Saunders tangles with dead spirits and the death-deserving living. ![]() But Circe, Whistler's tattooed and seductive media-savvy daughter who seeks to replace him, and her colorful band of nasties make Whistler seem benign in comparison. ![]() ![]() The latest victim of his K-bar knife is Diabolos Whistler, a satanic cult leader who makes Aleister Crowley look like Santa Claus. The realm of the dead touches him more deeply than the equally pained world of the living, which he finds inhabited by people with little humanity. Clay Saunders is a hired killer who sees ghosts. ![]()
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