Jack o' the Green is "the timeless man who dies each year and is reborn. Who symbolizes triumph over winter and death." Why is this man carved into the ceiling of a church in Australia? "This is not hypothetical evil...not the evil of lust, nor the evil of hate. This is the fundamental evil, as old as the world itself. This is the Devil's handiwork." Nicholas Close, a man who lost his best childhood friend, his father, his wife, and witnessed the suicide of his best friend's brother, determines to end the pattern of childhood abductions/murders, in spite of his fears, spiders among them, and his tendency to see ghosts.
This debut novel is spine-tingling with excellent suspense, descriptive passages and challenging vocabulary. unfortunately, some bad language is included. Well worth the read!!
"Ghosts are...spirits of people who are killed, or take their own lives, before their time."
RUSA 2011
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