![]() ![]() ![]() As his pretty shrink frets about his mental health, Lucas gorily offs the musicians one-by-one, using lethal skills picked up in Vietnam meanwhile, Whip Hand's former lead singer, Gabriel Stannard-rock's sexed-up, drugged-up, glowering macho-man supreme-plots to counterstrike, knowing that Lucas, who once threatened him, is behind the deaths. ![]() ![]() His real aim, though, is far nastier: to waste the members of Whip Hand, the now-defunct heavy-metal band whose demonic music a year ago caused a riot that resulted in the trampling death of Kristen. Freed after a year spent in an upscale asylum getting over the deaths of his daughter, Kristen, and his wife, California ad-man Lucas Ellington takes further leave from his job, ostensibly to spend time alone at his secluded cabin. Schow's horror short-stories won him a World Fantasy Award last year, but this feverish first novel-not horror but a grand guignol vengeance thriller set within a rock-'n'-roll milieu-proves to be only a series of intense set-pieces blended into a stagy, ludicrous muddle. ![]()
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