Necroscope: The Touch
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4.3 • 15 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A trio of bloodthirsty aliens have already destroyed one world and most of their own race; now they have their eyes set on earth. Their opponents: the men and woman of E-Branch and a brand-new Necroscope!
Malevolent aliens, the Mordri Three decide to become so evil that God himself will have to stop them. They can alter flesh with a simple touch, literally turning people inside out or seeding them with cancer. The Three have already destroyed an entire solar system and most of their own race. Their next targets: mankind and Earth!
On Earth, Scott St. John is mourning his beloved wife when he is struck by a golden arrow of light—a fragment of the soul of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope—and gains powers he does not understand. A mysterious, beautiful woman appears, desperately trying to warn Scott about something . . . then vanishes mid-word. Scott dreams of a very unusual Wolf, who begs him—in human speech—for rescue.
A fledgling Necroscope, a telepathic Wolf, a beautiful woman from beyond the stars, the ghost of Harry Keogh, the best of E-Branch's psychic fighting forces, and a dead girl who is not yet ready to seek her just reward must defeat three impossibly strong, psychically gifted monsters whose touch literally melts flesh from bone.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Lumley's first Necroscope novel since Necroscope IV: Deadspeak (2001) introduces a new hero, Scott St. John, who, like his late predecessor, Harry Keough, is able to talk to the dead and travel anywhere via Moebius strip. Scott becomes a spy in the E-Branch of the British Secret Service, joining, among others, a future-foretelling precog, a mind-reading telepath and a spotter who can detect persons with ESP. When a government official suffers "evagination" (in effect, he's turned inside out like a glove), Scott and crew wind up on a mission to prevent a psychically gifted race, the Shing't, from destroying the Earth. The spirit of Scott's recently deceased wife permits him to dally with an extraterrestrial beauty, Shania, as well as, however implausibly, a shaggy female wolf. Billed as horror, this unpretentious SF adventure provides plenty of fun in the classic pulp tradition.
Customer Reviews
The Touch ( part of the necroscope series)
Stumbled across this book series strictly by curiosity…. Looking for a good horror/mystery book to occupy my time for a long flight.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!! Espionage?? The dead???? Vampires???? The occult????? What more could one ask for in a book?
Touch
It took a couple of days to get through this book. The story was slow and it was nothing like the earlier series in aspects of action. The characters in the story needed an explanation before executing the simplest task. Meaning this was not a page turner. The main character who receives Harry's powers uses his abilites literally in the last chapter. The author built this character as having in depth experience with martial arts but not once was he in a melee situation. I wouldn't pay more than five dollars for this drawn out tale. The author clearly used his name to sell this book.