Overview
"I am no longer chasing the high. The high is constant now. The air I breathe smells of copper and frost."
By day, Arthur Pendrick is a nobody. An invisible clerk sitting in a Salford office, balancing spreadsheets to the penny and fading into the dreary Manchester drizzle. But behind his polite smile lies a terrifying truth: Arthur has discovered his true calling.
It begins with a blade in a dark alley. Then a body beneath a railway viaduct.
As autumn turns to a brutal, snow-bound winter, Arthur's cold, methodical hunger consumes him. From random passersby to armed police and military sentries, no one is safe. With every entry in his black leather ledger, his violence escalates-plunging a metropolis of three million people into paranoia, martial law, and total blackout.
As the authorities desperately lock down the city, they realize too late: you cannot quarantine a ghost. Navigating forgotten Victorian culverts, abandoned tramways, and freezing alleyways, Arthur turns Manchester into his personal abattoir, recording every gasp, every strike, and every drop of blood in agonizing, exquisite detail.
Told entirely through Arthur's unrepentant daily diary entries-and set to the bleak, post-punk rhythm of Joy Division-this is a chilling, visceral descent into total sociopathy and societal collapse.
Brutally realistic, hauntingly atmospheric, and terrifyingly intimate, this epistolary serial killer thriller will grip you by the throat and refuse to let go until the very last page.
Perfect for fans of American Psycho, The Golden Glove, and gritty, dark British crime fiction.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798160026435
- ISBN-10: 9798160026435
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.47 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.52 pounds
- Page Count: 188
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