The setup and action might seem a bit much for the end result there seems to be near limitless resources to both set up and execute the plan and to have the characters run through the hunt. The rest of the book is the chase of Frank trying to find and rescue Amanda while simultaneously Amanda is forced to 'play' in an adventure scavenger hunt for a missing time capsule.

Amanda and Frank attend a presentation about time capsules where they are drugged and Amanda gets kidnapped. Suffice to say, they are a couple of survivors from a tortuous torment in an abandoned building. The book is solidly entertaining and thrilling from start to finish.įrank Balenger and Amanda Evert are recovering from the events in CREEPERS (not a requirement to read but recommended). Anyway, SCAVENGER makes me reconsider why Morrell isn't on my must-follow list. A poor excuse considering the quality of Morrell's writing. The only reason I can think of is that I have so many other authors that I read and try to stay current on that I can't handle one more.

It makes me wonder why I don't anticipate reading his books as much as other authors. Morrell's trademark action sequences are embedded with fascinating historical clues that make Scavenger a thrill-a-minute page-turner as well as a mesmerizing literary experience.David Morrell is one of those authors that I generally don't seek out but almost everything that I read by him is really good. The result is a surreal palimpsest, one that contains the secret of survival for Balenger and a handful of unwilling players who race against the game's clock to solve the puzzle of the time capsule, only to discover that time is the true scavenger. Scavenger is a brilliant, frightening hunter-hunted tale that layers modern technology over the dusty artifacts of earlier times. But sometimes the past is buried for a reason. To save himself and the woman he loves, he must play by the rules of a god-like Game Master with an obsession for unearthing the past. Frank Balenger, the resolute but damaged hero of Creepers, now finds himself trapped in a nightmarish game of fear and death. Scavenger, Morrell's latest novel, takes us in a harrowing new direction: a desperate high-tech scavenger hunt for a 100-year-old time capsule. A New York Times best-seller, it won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award and earned numerous critical raves. David Morrell's Creepers was a publishing event in 2005, a powerful, edgy, dark thriller by a master of the genre.

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