Werewolf Cop

by Andrew Klavan Narrated by Andrew Klavan

Overview

Zach Adams is one of the best detectives in the country. Nicknamed Cowboy, he serves on a federal task force that has a single mission: to hunt down Dominic Abend, a European gangster. After a brutal murder gives them a lead, Zach feels like he's finally on Abend's trail. But things get complicated and very, very weird. Zach is beginning to suspect that Abend's evil goes beyond crime - perhaps to the edge of the supernatural. In a centuries-old forest under a full moon, a beast assaults him, cursing him forever. In the aftermath, Zach is transformed into something horrible - something deadly. Now, the good cop has innocent blood on his hands. He has killed - and he will kill again - in the form of a beast who can't be controlled or stopped.

Editorial Reviews

Books & Culture's John Wilson for 'Christianity Today

Don’t start this novel when you have only a few minutes at your disposal. Once you get into it, you are going to want to hunker down and read. Dark, violent, funny, and compulsively readable.

Stephen King

The most original American novelist of crime and suspense since Cornell Woolrich.

Fantasy and Science Fiction

A horror novel crossed with the detective genre—more something you'd expect from John Connelly, say, than Patricia Briggs. Unlike many werewolf novels I've read, nothing in this novel feels like foreplay to the inevitable because there's already so much going on in Adams's life. It reads like the real deal, utilizing powerful elements from different kinds of storytelling because they're needed and using them to create something that we haven't really seen before.

LitReactor

A great read. It’s a slickly written, character driven crime/horror hybrid thriller that pushes all the right buttons. One hell of a ride.

Foreword Reviews

Though the title might suggest more lighthearted fare, make no mistake, this is a gritty crime novel at heart. Klavan is a suspense expert, building slowly through the first half of the book and then setting a rapid, tense pace for the second. And for all of that, Klavan also infuses the text with a plentiful wry humor.

Providence Journal

Horrific, hallucinatory, haunting and harrowing. Such a suspenseful yarn I couldn’t put it down, mesmerized, horrified and actually frightened. So taut and tense, and Klavan grounds the supernatural goings-on so carefully in a cop’s investigations. This horror story is awesome.

Winnipeg Free Press

Andrew Klavan's werewolf tale bounds along at a thrilling pace. Cinematic, rich description of setting and action.

Joseph Finder

Werewolf Cop moves like a freight train—a classic white-knuckled police procedural with the chills of a midnight horror movie, and the best kind of old-fashioned hero at the center. I loved it.

John J. Miller

Werewolf Cop is a modern masterpiece of hardboiled horror, featuring a hero who feels like he stepped out of a Raymond Chandler novel as he confronts a dilemma that recalls the best of Stephen King—and the whole thing set to a moral sensibility that has become too rare in literature.

Books and Culture

Be warned: this book is loaded with provocations. The French have Michel Houellebecq; here in the US of A, we have Andrew Klavan. Werewolf Cop is his best book yet, one that starts with a rush and never lets up, dark and funny, with the bittersweet taste of the knowledge of good and evil.

AuthorLink.com

Werewolf Cop grabs the reader by the throat and doesn’t let go until the very end. The writing is crisp and descriptive. Straight-arrow Zach Adams has his flaws and moments of doubt. The other characters are also fully-rounded. This good read will send shivers up your spine.

Clive Cussler

Klavan winds his tale tighter and tighter until the reader is hopelessly spellbound. Superb suspense by a master storyteller.

Mystery Scene Magazine

Klavan’s characters are finely etched, lending verisimilitude to the supernatural elements of the story.

Diaboloique Magazine

There’s gore galore, quite cinematic in execution. While the visual imagery is potent, Klavan doesn’t neglect fleshing out his characters, lending a sense of verisimilitude to the supernatural elements of the story.

BookPage

A fast-paced page-turner that delivers all the gory thrills its title promises.

Bookreporter

Werewolf Cop is a fun and gripping read that is much more classic police procedural than campy horror. The end result is the most unique novel Andrew Klavan has penned to date.

Booklist

Klavan has a knack for creating relentless, fast-paced narratives, and this thriller-horror hybrid is no exception.

Booklist

Klavan has a knack for creating relentless, fast-paced narratives, and this thriller-horror hybrid is no exception.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175733724
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	03/15/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged

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