Down Pinhole
A Sci-Fi Historical Thriller of Love, Betrayal, and the Damned
by Glenn Cooper
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Pub Date 1 Oct 2025 | Archive Date 30 Sep 2025
Book Whisperer | Lascaux Media
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Description
A collider opens a gateway. The damned are waiting.
When a physics experiment rips open reality, physicist Emily Loughty vanishes—and in her place appears a long-dead killer. To save her, ex-soldier John Camp crosses into Down, a parallel world of eternal war.
Here, the dead cannot die. Kings and tyrants—Henry VIII, Himmler, Borgia, Robespierre—rule fractured kingdoms, waging endless battles for power. Those who defy them are cast into rotting rooms, condemned to decay forever.
As John fights his way through betrayal and shifting alliances, Emily is hunted for her knowledge by rulers who would weaponize science itself. To survive, they must find each other before the portal closes.
Down: Pinhole launches Glenn Cooper’s epic saga—Inferno reimagined as Game of Thrones, where science tears open Hell and history’s monsters fight to rule it.
Advance Praise
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Glenn Cooper blends science, history, and horror into a relentless page-turner—Dante’s Inferno meets Michael Crichton.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “A novel as unpredictable as it is gripping… dark, brutal, and absolutely fascinating.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “One of Cooper’s most ambitious works—epic in scope, imaginative, and impossible to put down.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “The idea of a Hell where the dead remain human—with the same fears, ambitions, and hopes—is captivating.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Rich with historical figures brought vividly to life—Henry VIII, Stalin, Borgia, Garibaldi—all clashing in Hell.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Difficult to classify but unforgettable… like Dante rewritten as a modern thriller.”
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9798999100115 |
| PRICE | US$17.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 426 |
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Featured Reviews
Jann H, Educator
This began with an explanation of physics and stuff connected with it. I had no earthly idea what any of this was about, but I continued to read.
Through some cosmic joke (has to do with physics), Emily is transported to hell and a murderer (I think his name was Woodhouse) is transferred to the living earth. John (another member of the physics team) decides to go find Emily and bring her back. In John's place, Duck (that's his name) was transferred to the living earth.
So - Emily and John are in hell, Woodhouse and Duck are on the living earth. Problem is, the aroma. Death has a peculiar, awful aroma. Figure this out.
So hell is NOT full of fire and brimstone. It is mostly full of people who have killed other people. You'll meet King Henry VIII, Stalin and Himmler among others. They are all still intent on killing each other, but how do you kill someone already dead?
One thing I did not like is the amount of animals in hell. No animal has done anything deserving of that fate.
So there are four stories going on. Emily is trying to survive in hell. John is in hell looking for Emily. Woodhouse is killing people on earth. And the lab folks are trying to get the two dead people back to hell and John and Emily back out of hell. Simple enough, but there was no warning when the story shifted from one set of characters to the other.
It was a most interesting read (except for the physics part).
