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The Soul Collectors
by Chris Mooney

Release Date: 28th Jan 2011
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 978 0 1410 4950 2
RRP: £6.99

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A thriller that deserves its own genre: “Chiller”; The Soul Collectors is a deeply disturbing, morbidly fascinating, intensely absorbing and ultimately frighteningly realistic tale of extreme violence and the impact it has on the minds of both the perpetrator and the victim.
A missing child has turned up at his own house, but the family reunion isn’t that of the standard hugs and tears fare; Charlie is holding at them at gunpoint and demanding to see Darby McCormick, the officer previously responsible for his case. Still little more than a teenager, Charlie has clearly undergone substantial and horrific mutilation; deeply paranoid and rambling incoherently, it is Darby’s job to enter the house and defuse the threat. If the state of Charlie himself wasn’t enough to, the effect of a sudden invasion of a fake SWAT team and the release of a violently lethal gas certainly gives Darby food for thought.
What is more terrifying: the idea of an incredibly powerful organisation set on causing violence and destruction or the fanatical religious cult determined to terrorise mankind for its own abstract purpose? The Soul Collectors appears to combine the two. “Archaon” is one of twelve, a regular numerical device within the Christian faith, but Archaon’s ambitions could not be further from spreading peace, love and kindness. In underground tunnels, individuals are kept enclosed in stone cells. Most are tortured. Charlie was one of them.
A taut, tension-filled chiller that ensnares you and makes your mind grapple between fear, repulsion and a peculiar obsession to see the outcome; Mooney gives a masterclass of how to provide devilish shivers and blood-curdling thrills. There is an abundance of terrifying adjectives we could throw at this title and they’d all stick. Like being dropped 80 feet in 6 seconds; it will simply leave your heart in your mouth and your brain high on adrenaline. Superbly scary – and absolute must for thrill-seekers.

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