Blood Men

WINNER OF NEW ZEALAND’S PRESTIGIOUS NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2011’Riveting and all too realistic. Cleave is a writer to watch’ Tess Gerritsen’Cleave uses words like lethal weapons’ New York Times Book ReviewEdward Hunter has it all – a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future… and a very dark past.Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in the country’s most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edward’s father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome appearance into his world. Suddenly he’s going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn’t seen since he was a boy. Is Edward destined to be just like him, to become a man of blood?A true master of the genre that only comes along once in a generation, Cleave unveils a brutally vivid picture of a killer’s mind and of a city of fallen angels captured at the ends of the earth.]]>