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Nomads

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This is the book based on the John McTiernan's film (not the opposite), and I found it much more interesting that other Yarbro's books (as the overpaged Hyacinths). If you like contemporary fantasy/horror as Lucius Shephard's "Green Eyes" or DeLint's "Little Country", you may like this.

I read this book a long time ago, years before the movie ever came out. Having read the book is what made me want to see the movie. The movie was based on the book and not nearly as well. This book follows and anthropologist, Pommier,who comes to Los Angeles to teach. He is accompanied by his wife Niki, who has followed him around the world and is looking forward to settling down in one place. What he finds is that his work among the various tribes of the world has led him to another that has never been noticed or acknowledged, in the middle of a modern city. The book is haunting in how it portrays evil and what we will do to seek it out, even when we are threatened with the loss of everything. Enjoy this book, no blood or gore, but a real story.

This is a fascinating novel really engrossing and riveting. I love the darkness and terror without the whole blood and guts approach of so many horror writers. The characters a really well written and you truly feel for them as they go through hell and back.
With an interesting premise of using the people that have no face to mainstream crowds in this world and turning them into something completley sinister.
Was made into a film in 1986 that is also interesting but isn't nearly as good as the book mostly becuase they just didn't explain enough of what was going on and left viewers who hadn't read the book very confused.
Contrary to a prior review this is NOT based on the movie but was written several years before(This was published in 1984, which means it was written at least a year earlier than that as opposed to the films release in 1986)I have a first printing and it makes no mention of a screenplay as I recall or that a movie is forthcoming as most screenplay novels do.

Nomads writings are most vicious words from the beginning of the human being in the civilizations. There isn't a reason to live in a civilization and humanity to degree the people who will live at the edge of the dreams and truth. Nomads believes to nothing. People were disgussed or crushed by feelings but they have to live themselves against.