Black Valley - Softcover

Jim Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330412469 ISBN 13: 9780330412469

Publisher: Pan Books, 2003

Synopsis

Whitey Dobbs, a local roughneck, laughs while being buried alive on Hawkins Hill. He thinks this is just an initiation, a high-school hazing, the four teenage boys who are busy digging aim to exact revenge for a brutal rape. They soon realise that their hoax has tragic consequences that will haunt them for the rest of their lives . . . Twenty-two years later, the nearby small town of Black Valley is mysteriously plagued by a series of disturbing and unbelievable events: a red-hot brick crashing through a window of the local college, flaming trucks crossing the sky, showers of broken glass shredding a lone jogger. But most bizarre of all is the erratic appearance of a teenager with bone-white hair, who turns out to be the same boy buried alive two decades earlier. And he doesn't look a day older.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

On the night of a raging electrical storm, a group of teenage boys gathers to bury one of their own . . . alive. It isn’t murder, though, because the “victim” is a willing participant, part of a gang-initiation stunt. But even the best-laid plans can go horrifically wrong.

Fast-forward twenty-two years: The events of that stormy night are a distant memory. And the boys involved are now respected men in their hometown— the sheriff, the mayor, a congressman, even a Nobel Prize–winning physicist. Yet in spite of his newfound prestige, Dr. Dean Truman is a haunted man, tied to his town by a personal horror even his old friends know nothing about. But when a mysterious drifter arrives, bringing a wave of grisly and bizarre killings with him, Dean’s battle with his conscience will give way to a much more desperate fight: for his sanity, for the survival of his friends and neighbors, and for his own life.

From the Back Cover

“Black Valley has it all–an ingenious premise, engaging characters, masterful storytelling, and hair-raising scenes that chilled me to the marrow. Jim Brown is clearly a rising star in this new golden era of suspense fiction.” –JOHN SAUL

“Terror runs amok in Black Valley–a Dean Koontz-style thriller pulsating with suspense, intrigue, and a twenty-year-old vendetta that rises (literally) from the grave." –KATHERINE NEVILLE, Author of The Eight

“A classic page-turner . . . An intense, intelligent, fast-paced, first-rate thriller.” –JOE WEBER, Author of Dancing with the Dragon

“Black Valley is an incredible story–I’m still reeling.” –DOUGLAS PRESTON, Coauthor of The Cabinet of Curiosities

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0330412469
• ISBN 13: 9780330412469
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English