Red hands

Red hands

Christopher Golden

Book - 2020

"In bestselling author Christopher Golden's supernatural thriller Red Hands, sometimes a story is a warning. Sometimes the warning comes too late When a mysterious and devastating bioweapon causes its victims to develop Red Hands, the touch of death, weird science expert Ben Walker is called to investigate. A car plows through the crowd at a July 4th parade. The driver climbs out, sick and stumbling, reaching out...and everyone he touches drops dead within seconds. Mae Sinclair watches in horror as people she loves begin to die and she knows she must take action. But in the aftermath of this terror, it's Mae Sinclair who possesses that killing touch. Fleeing into the mountains, Mae is struggling with her own grief, confusion,... and the dawning realization that she will never be able to touch another human being again. "Weird s**t expert" Ben Walker is surprised to get a call from Alena Boudreau, director of the newly restructured Global Science Research Coalition. There's an upheaval in the organization and she needs to send someone she can trust to Jericho Falls. Whoever finds Mae Sinclair first will unravel the mystery of her death touch, and many are willing to kill her for that secret. Walker's assignment is to get her off the mountain alive. But as Mae searches for a safe hiding place, hunted and growing sicker by the moments, she begins to hear an insidious voice in her head, and the yearning, the need... the hunger to touch another human being continues to grow. When Walker and Mae meet at last, they will unravel a stunning legacy of death and betrayal, and a malignant secret as old as history"--

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Subjects
Investigations > Fiction.
Biological weapons > Fiction.
Scientists > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Betrayal > Fiction.
Missing persons > Investigation > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Apocalyptic fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Genres
Thrillers (Fiction)
Apocalyptic fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press 2020.
Language
English
Main Author
Christopher Golden (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
310 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781250246301
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

A car crashes into a small-town parade and a sick man emerges, instantly killing everyone he touches. As Maeve Sinclair rushes him, he passes the deadly touch on to her, the magnitude of which she only learns by accidentally killing her mother and brother before escaping into the mountains. With this intense opening, imbued with a relentlessly increasing sense of dread, Ben Walker, weird-science expert and U.S. Government commando, is called back from the involuntary retirement he earned in The Pandora Room (2019) and tasked with capturing Maeve alive. This is a pivot in the series--Walker is on American soil, working with a different team, and fighting an ancient contagion the government resurrected on purpose--but the way the story unfolds is true to form. The neck-whipping action and shifting points of view give the reader a wide-angle perspective on the complicated, terrifying situation, invoking maximum terror on every page. Golden also leaves room for his diverse cast of characters to develop and inhabit the story fully, adding in an uncomfortable sense that this fictional tale is not too far from reality. For fans of horror-thriller series like those by Jonathan Maberry and Mira Grant.

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Golden's third supernatural thriller featuring Dr. Ben Walker (after The Pandora Room) is almost as good as its predecessors. In the chilling opening scene, a July 4 celebration in Jericho Falls, N.H., turns hellish after a car plows into a crowd. The driver, who is riddled with bullet wounds, emerges from his crashed BMW to kill even more people, this time by touching them with his hands, which appear red and cause death on contact. Only Maeve Sinclair survives the fatal touch--but the killer's power transfers to her. As a shadowy group in black coats arrives and takes charge of the crime scene, a horrified Maeve flees to the mountains. News of the incident disrupts Ben Walker's plans to spend some much-needed time with his 12-year-old son, as Alena Boudreau, Walker's new boss at of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, orders him to New Hampshire to investigate--and to find Maeve before either the police or the "blackcoats" can get to her. Golden again maintains engagement by making even secondary characters feel real and well-rounded. Series fans will be pleased by this solid installment. (Dec.)

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Review by Library Journal Review

In this latest from New York Times best-selling, Bram Stoker Award-toting Golden, those who develop a death touch ("red hands") kill anyone their fingers graze. Weird science expert Ben Walker must help rescue the red-handed Mae Sinclair, hiding in the mountains to protect both herself and others and increasingly and insidiously desperate to reach out.

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