Road Seven
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Mark Sandoval—resolutely arrogant, covered head to foot in precise geometric scarring, and still marginally famous after Hollywood made an Oscar-winner based off his memoir years before—has been strongly advised by his lawyer to leave the country following a drunken and potentially fatal hit and run. When a woman sends Sandoval grainy footage of what appears to be a unicorn, he quickly hires an assistant and the two head off to the woman's farm in Hvíldarland, a tiny, remote island off the coast of Iceland. When they arrive on the island and discover that both a military base and the surrounding álagablettur, the nearby woods, are teeming with strangeness and secrets, they begin to realize that a supposed unicorn sighting is the least of their worries.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rosson (The Mercy of the Tide) delves into the strange world of cryptozoology in this well wrought speculative tale that is quirky and creepy by turn. Burned-out academic Brian Schutt is desperate for a change when he sees that Mark Sandoval, a celebrity cryptozoologist, bestselling author, and self-proclaimed alien-abductee, is recruiting a research assistant. Though their first meeting reveals Sandoval to be an unstable alcoholic, Brian accepts the position, traveling with Sandoval to Hv ldarland, off the coast of Iceland, to investigate an alleged unicorn sighting. But from the moment they arrive, Brian senses a conspiracy afoot with the people of Hvildarland. As the truth about both Hvildarland and Sandoval's seedy background comes to light, Rosson makes a powerful case for human nature being just as unknowable and elusive as the unicorn the men are hunting. Rosson shifts from the mundane to the horrible at breakneck speed, creating a sense of unstoppable momentum. Less successful are the sometimes jarring shifts in narrator from Brian to Sandoval and from third to first person. Still, the blend of genres, from science fiction to cosmic horror, is masterfully executed. Readers will be riveted by this clever, unsettling adventure.
