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John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.
He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his
potential.
He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to
become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around
him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing
normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him
from damnation.
Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don't
demand or expect the empathy he's unable to offer. Perhaps that's
what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there's something
different about the body the police have just found behind the
Wash-n-Dry Laundromat---and to appreciate what that difference
means.
Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside
himself, a threat he can't control, a menace to everything and
everyone he would love, if only he could.
Dan Wells's debut novel is the first volume of a trilogy that will
keep you awake and then haunt your dreams.
"I killed a demon. I don't know if it was really, technically a
demon, but I do know that he was some kind of monster, with fangs
and claws and the whole bit, and he killed a lot of people. So I
killed him. I think it was the right thing to do. At least the
killing stopped.
""Well, it stopped for a while.
"In "I Am Not a Serial Killer," John Wayne Cleaver saved his town
from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he
obsessively studies.
But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of
one has brought another to Clayton County. Soon there are new
victims for John to work on at the mortuary and a new mystery to
solve. But John has tasted death, and the dark nature he used as a
weapon---the terrifying persona he calls "Mr. Monster"---might now
be using him.
No one in Clayton is safe unless John can vanquish two nightmarish
adversaries: the unknown demon he must hunt and the inner demon he
can never escape.
In this sequel to his brilliant debut, Dan Wells ups the ante with
a thriller that is just as gripping and even more intense. He
apologizes in advance for the nightmares.
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Fragments (Paperback)
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Author Dan Wells is back with the sequel to the sci-fi
blockbuster Partials, which Pittacus Lore called a "thrilling
sci-fi adrenaline rush, with one of the most compelling and
frightening visions of Earth's future I've seen yet."
After discovering the cure for RM, Kira Walker sets off on a
terrifying journey into the ruins of postapocalyptic America and
the darkest desires of her heart in order to uncover the means--and
a reason--for humanity's survival.
Dan Wells extends his richly imagined, gritty world and
introduces new memorable characters in this second installment in
the Partials Sequence.
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Ruins (Paperback)
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Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between
Partials and humans in the gripping final installment in the
Partials Sequence, a series that combines the thrilling action of
The Hunger Games with the provocative themes of Blade Runner and
The Stand.
There is no avoiding it--the war to decide the fate of both
humans and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold in their possession
a weapon that could destroy the other, and Kira Walker has precious
little time to prevent that from happening. She has one chance to
save both species and the world with them, but it will only come at
great personal cost.
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Ruins (Paperback)
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The only hope for humanity isn't human. But she's fighting to stop
a war that could destroy them all... Kira is fighting to prevent a
final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final
installment of the teen sci-fi blockbuster Partials series. Humans
and Partials alike are on the brink of destruction, and their only
hope is to work together. But there is no avoiding it - the final
war to decide the fate of both species is at hand, and every
faction seems determined to tear the others apart. Both sides hold
in their possession a weapon that could destroy the other. Kira has
fought her way through madness and ruin, but the greatest horror
lies in a place she had never dared to consider: herself. She has
one chance to save both species and the world. But it might be at
the cost of her life...
I Don't Want to Kill You is the third darkly comic novel in the
John Wayne Carver series by Dan Wells, the first of which - I Am
Not a Serial Killer - is now a major motion picture.
Sixteen-year-old John Wayne Cleaver has always known he's
different, but not because he only has one friend (and doesn't much
like him) and not because he regularly helps out in his mother's
mortuary. He's different because he recognizes the classic signs of
an incipient serial killer in his own personality, and he's created
a rigid set of rules to follow to keep his darker nature, the one
he calls Mr Monster in check. But John discovers it's the
personality traits he so fears that put him in the best position to
save the people of his town from a series of horrific and
disturbing killers...
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Mr Monster (Paperback)
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Mr Monster is the second chilling novel in Dan Wells's John Wayne
Carver series, and the follow up to I Am Not A Serial Killer - now
a major motion picture. John Wayne Cleaver has always known he has
a dark side but he's fought hard to oppress it and live a normal
life - separating John from Mr Monster to survive. But after
confronting and destroying the vicious killer that was terrorizing
his town, his inner monster is getting stronger and harder to
contain. And now more bodies are being discovered... With the
police failing to catch Clayton County's second serial killer John
is going to have to use his secret knowledge of the first
demon-killer to trap the second...but will he be able to avoid
suspicion falling on him, and, in the face of extreme horrors, will
he be able to restrain Mr Monster?
I Am Not A Serial Killer is now a major film starring Christopher
Lloyd and Max Records. This is the first title in the thrillingly
dark John Wayne Carver series. John works in his family's mortuary
and has an obsession with serial killers. He wants to be a good
person, but fears he is a sociopath, and for years he has
suppressed his dark side through a strict system of rules designed
to mimic 'normal' behavior. Then a demon begins stalking his small
town and killing people one by one, and John is forced to give in
to his darker nature in order to save them. As he struggles to
understand the demon and find a way to kill it, his own mind begins
to unravel until he fears he may never regain control. Faced with
the reality that he is, perhaps, more monstrous than the monster he
is fighting, John must make a final stand against the horrors of
both the demon and himself.
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Fragments (Paperback)
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Fighting to stop a war that could destroy everyone alive... Kira
Walker nearly died searching for the RM cure, but the battle for
survival is only just beginning. The genetically-engineered
Partials are inextricably bound to a greater plan that could save
both races and give Kira the answers she desperately seeks.
Venturing deep into the wasteland, Kira's only allies are an
unhinged drifter and two Partials who betrayed her yet saved her
life - the only ones who know her secret. Back on Long Island,
what's left of humanity is gearing up for war. But their greatest
enemy may be one they didn't even know existed. It is the eleventh
hour of humanity's time on earth; this journey may be their last.
Dan Wells introduced us to John Wayne Cleaver in the chilling
novels "I Am Not a Serial Killer" and "Mr. Monster." In "I Don't
Want to Kill You," Cleaver faces his toughest challenge yet.
John Wayne Cleaver has called a demon---literally called it on the
phone---and challenged it to a fight. He's faced two monsters
already, barely escaping with his life, and now he's done running;
he's taking the fight to them. As he wades through the town's
darkest secrets, searching for any sign of who the demon might be,
one thing becomes all too clear: in a game of cat and mouse with a
supernatural killer, "you" are always the mouse.
In "I Am Not a Serial Killer" we watched a budding sociopath break
every rule he had to save his town from evil. In "Mr. Monster" we
held our breath as he fought madly with himself, struggling to stay
in control. Now John Wayne Cleaver has mastered his twisted talents
and embraced his role as a killer of killers. "I Don't Want to Kill
You" brings his story to a thundering climax of suspicion, mayhem,
and death.
It's time to punish the guilty.
And in a town full of secrets, everyone is guilty of something.
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