{"product_id":"2940015927412","title":"The Darker Saints","description":"Behind the walls of respectability is a world exploding with crime, sin, and the darkest magic of all…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rain beats down on the hot New Orleans streets. A derelict staggers, no longer a man, but a zombi, a vessel emptied by \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003evoodoo sorcery and poured full of another’s will.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the land of lace curtains and Mardi Gras. This is the world of the bayou and sizzling crawfish and a man in white who \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecan kill at any distance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA storm of corporate greed and cruel vengeance is sweeping through New Orleans, descending on a young advertising executive \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Nightlife‘s Justin Gray) who fears he may be selling his soul along with brand names, on a weary ex-CIA agent, and on a \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaribbean chauffeur on the run from enemies he can’t understand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo powerful businessmen, one legitimate, the other a criminal, have built a common empire. Now it is coming apart in a tidal \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewave of bloodshed and shattered lives, flooding the Delta with voodoo — the dark magic of darker saints.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR THE DARKER SAINTS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Southern Louisiana is always a terrifically atmospheric setting for hot, humid, moldering, multicultural horror. Hodge uses \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehis setting well … moves along with the speed of an airboat skimming a steaming bayou. The action’s hot, the magic is dark, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand you start getting a little sorry for Justin, considering all the shit he gets into in the space of just two novels … This \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis a quite literate Edge of Night in which the morning apparently never comes.” — Ed Bryant, in Locus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You’ve got the spicy ingredients for a dish so intense and uncompromising, it’ll leave your eyes stinging … If you’re tired \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof predictable horror yarns, then step into Hodge’s dark and obsessive world, where lovers circle each other like enemies, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebrothers see murder as a tool of capitalism, and ancient voodoo gods descend to earth to possess willing subjects. Hodge’s \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ework often emphasizes that the real world can be scarier than the supernatural. The Darker Saints stands as a mature and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efully-realized vision of what it’s like to be young and confused … and you can’t get much scarier than that.” — INsider","brand":"Crossroad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163497119984,"sku":"2940015927412","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015927412_p0.jpg?v=1763626383","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015927412","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}