Those the courts commit to Farview Hospital for treatment must face the twisted brutality of guards who work persistently to break patients down, their object always to reduce them to pathetic, easy-to-manage shells, weak, rattling bags of bones, soft, flabby masses of obedient matter.

With white-knuckled intensity Wendell Rawls confronts the nightmarish facts: sadistic 'care,' beatings, druggings, and homosexual rapes that often end in murder, psychological counseling that rarely extends beyond 'You're just as crazy as a shithouse rat.'įarview is no hospital instead it's a cruel hell of a prison. 'An ultra-flammable combination of science-based horror, primal nightmare-level terror, and unrelenting action, cunningly tied together by indelible characters and a satisfyingly sly, knowing sense of humour.' - Steven Soderbergh, Academy Award-winning director of Traffic and Ocean's Eleven You may also be interested in.C OLD STORAGE tells in brutal blacks, blues, and institutional grays the horror of the Farview Hospital for the Criminally Insane in the hills of Wayne Country, Pa., where patients were condemned to therapy worse than life. When the real apocalypse arrives, may it be even half as funny as this.' - Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author ' Cold Storage is The Andromeda Strain on crack: chilling end-of-the-world terror infected with wicked humour. The very definition of 'thriller,' David Koepp's Cold Storage grabs you and shakes you and ultimately leaves you grinning.' - Scott Frank, Academy Award-nominated writer of Logan and Out of Sight 'You might as well put your plans on ice for the next twenty-four hours, as all you'll be doing is reading this book. 'A thrilling, funny, and unexpectedly moving joy ride' Scott Smith, New York Times bestselling author Cold Storage is sheer thrillery goodness, and riotously entertaining' Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

'To be simultaneously terrifying and hilarious is a masterstroke few writers can pull off, but Koepp manages in this incredible fiction debut that calls to mind a beautiful hybrid of Michael Crichton and Carl Hiassen. 'You'll be grinning and gagging in equal measure.' - SFX it's Michael Crichton with laughs.' - The Financial Times

' Jurrassic Park screenwriter Koepp's jaunty debut. You need to get on this right away.' - Stephen King 'Gruesome, terrifying, pulse-pounding, and also pretty goddamn funny in places.

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