Pyrophobia
A thriller
by Jack Lance
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Pub Date 1 Jul 2015 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2015
Description
Life has been nothing but smooth sailing for Jason Evans. He has a loving wife, Kayla, a good job, and plenty of friends. There's nothing standing in the way of his happiness, until an unknown enemy starts sending him strange photographs, of a graveyard, with ominous and perplexing messages on the back of each: ‘You are dead. You think you're alive, but you don't exist . . .’ Jason soon finds out that his life is not what he has always believed it to be. He embarks on an incredible search. A search for his own grave.
Dark, tense, and psychologically gripping, Pyrophobia is a fantastic horror story with subtle hints of the paranormal.
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780727884909 |
| PRICE | US$28.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Rony C, Reviewer
Gripping Thriller Explores a Real Fear of Fire, 13 July 2015 The Prologue opens with a murder rigged to look like a suicide. The significance of this is not found until well in to the book, always a pointer to a cleverly-constructed plot.
The main character, Jason Evans, and his wife, Kayla, are living a privileged lifestyle in Los Angeles. He is the art director in a prestigious advertising agency and she is a management secretary for a successful electrical business. But each is flawed. Kayla has a phobia concerning death which can trigger a depression, and Jason has more than a fear of fire. His pyrophobia can instantly convert him into a quivering wreck with hallucinations of gargantuan proportions. But he has always been unable to get to the bottom of the problem.
In the midst of their bliss, Jason receives a Polaroid photo of a graveyard through the post, with the words ‘You are dead’ written on the back. Instantly his well-balanced lifestyle is swept from under his feet as he tries to ponder the meaning of this photo and its words. When another two Polaroids come his way, with words implying that he may already be dead or will die on August 18t, he enlists the help of an IT expert, Lou Briggs, who has suffered severe and life-changing burns, to try to trace the sender.
This is a great book which explores the terrible phobia that fire can produce. Jack Lance has created wonderful characters which drive the plot along at a tremendous pace. He has also beautifully set out the problems a marriage can encounter when, despite undoubted mutual love, one partner suffers from a debilitating and isolating fear.
The eventual denouement is as surprising as it is likely, and is a fitting climax to a wonderful thriller. Congratulations must also go to Lia Belt for her translation from the original Dutch. – Sméagol
Rating: Four Stars.
