Spooks Book 5: Megan
Spooks Book 5: Megan by Xavier Dorison, Fabien Nury, and Christine Rossi, Cinebook
SPOOKS, PRESIDENT Roosvelt's occult hunters, are back from their mission in Cuba, and Morton Chapel’s concerns about his daughter, Megan, are foremost on his mind. Chapel has agreed that Kathy Lennox, Spooks’ newest member and a practitioner of this new science they call psychiatry, may help treat Megan.
Chapel’s wife Madeline was a healer, a trait that ran through the females in her European family lineage; the trouble was the more one used it the more it sent the user a little mad, that or they actually became possessed. The voices in her head told Madeline to kill their child, but Chapel stopped her. With a bullet. Megan witnessed this and it put her in a catatonic state. Now, somewhere in Megan’s mind she wants revenge on her father, or that’s what the only friend she’s got tells her – the friend who looks a dapper gent but is the demon at the heart of her family’s curse.
Angel Salvaje failed in exorcising the demon once before, but he knows Chapel is going to need him again. Joey Bishop is getting drunk and worse, all over his feelings for Kathryn. She herself has other courtly dramas to play out. Matters slowly unfold, and somewhere in between all this the president sells Chapel down the river, to Madline's father.
Rossi’s subtle colouring evocatively drawing the reader in as a slow burning story of mixed emotions catches us in a web of which there appears no escape: Provocative situations, gunfights, and deceit are all present and accounted for.
There is no ambiguity here, despite what Kathryn’s fellow psychiatrists may think, there’s a demon on the loose and there’s going to be hell to pay come the next volume in this series.
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