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Lucas Manson shreds the common teen vampire genre and re-invents it from the ground up. Forget all those mamby-pamby moonstruck teen wolf romantics; Lucas Manson is a multimillionaire evangelist, and as cynical and vicious and charismatic a bad guy as you will ever meet. He's part businessman, part Elmer Gantry, and part Hitler. But that's just one aspect of this complex horror thriller. Without giving away the breathtaking twist, let's just say that the hero, FBI agent Mark Dylan, undergoes a life journey that will leave you breathless. The subplot involving Dylan's desire to have children with his wife Lucy is sharp and affecting, and plays a central role in the book's denouement--it is not just a tacked-on gimmick to make Dylan a fuller character. If that weren't enough, if you read between the lines you'll realize that the book is skewering cult religions like Scientology, which the Kingdom Seven Family Temple suspiciously resembles. The temple is run like a business, right down to managers' meetings with sales reports on the Lucas Inspiration line of clothing, made, naturally, in sweatshops. The temple leaders carefully track how many victims they consume, and there is a grimly comic theme running through the book about how the temple manages to dispose of the growing number of victims' carcasses. This book combines social satire and horror in a refreshingly original way. There are absolutely no fantasy or supernatural elements; Lucas Manson is science-based and the structure of the book is rigorous. Above all, it will make you think about your identity and how you identify yourself with your social or ethnic group. "Lucas Manson" asks: "Who do you think you are?" The answer may shock you.
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Thomas Hauck is the author of "Pistonhead," a novel, and "Public Image: Stories and Poems," a collection of short stories and poems. His work has been published in "The Armchair Aesthete" and "The Bitter Oleander." He lives with his wife and two children in Gloucester, Massachusetts. |
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