It's not just a page-turner, it's a head-turner. It's Dan Brown meets Al Gore. You can't stop reading and once you're done, you can't stop thinking about its messages. A book that bookstore employees will hand-sell to customers and those customers will then insist their friends read. --Dale Dauten, King Features
More frightening than any vision of our future, Mark Nykanen's Primitive depicts the reality of the here and now. A timely and stunning vision of what happens when true-believers clash, catching innocents in the middle. --Ed Stackler, editor of New York Times-bestselling authors Greg Iles, Ridley Pearson, Ted Dekker, and others.<
Primitive captures the raw and rugged high alpine environment, a powerful, emblematic setting for this furiously-paced thriller about a mother and daughter, and the radical environmentalists who want to use them to deliver a desperate message to the world. -- --Christopher Van Tilburg, author of Mountain Rescue Doctor
More frightening than any vision of our future, Mark Nykanen's Primitive depicts the reality of the here and now. A timely and stunning vision of what happens when true-believers clash, catching innocents in the middle. --Ed Stackler, editor of New York Times-bestselling authors Greg Iles, Ridley Pearson, Ted Dekker, and others.<
Primitive captures the raw and rugged high alpine environment, a powerful, emblematic setting for this furiously-paced thriller about a mother and daughter, and the radical environmentalists who want to use them to deliver a desperate message to the world. -- --Christopher Van Tilburg, author of Mountain Rescue Doctor
"More frightening than any vision of our future, Mark Nykanen's Primitive depicts the reality of the here and now. A timely and stunning vision of what happens when true-believers clash, catching innocents in the middle." -- Ed Stackler, editor of New York Times-bestselling authors Greg Iles, Ridley Pearson, Ted Dekker, and others.
From the Back Cover
A neo-primitive cult, possessing secret government documents filled with terrifying information about global warming, kidnaps a famous fashion model and holds her hostage, forcing her to act as their spokesperson. As time runs out, her estranged daughter allies with a dangerous activist group to rescue her, while battling dark agendas from the government and Big Oil.
About the Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mark Nykanan is an Emmy and Edgar-winning former NBC News Correspondent and the acclaimed author of three previous thrillers for major publishers: SEARCH ANGEL, THE BONE PARADE, and HUSH.
Praise for Nykanen's books: Emmy and Edgar-winning journalist Nykanen uncovers his characters' psyches with wit, complexity, and originality...Nykanen's attractively unpredictable characters will keep a stubborn hold on readers' attention. Publishers Weekly.
[Chet Boyce] makes Hannibal Lector seem like a nice guy with an eating disorder. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The creepiest page turner since The Silence of the Lambs. US Weekly
The Bone Parade is an ...irresistible suspense thriller... Outstanding is Nykanen s deep look into modern sculpture, which gives the story its weight, relish and richness...
Pages bronzed with horror. Kirkus Reviews (starred)
When half of a thriller is written from the perspective of an egomaniacal sculptor cum serial killer who methodically tortures whole families, takes casts of their bodies at the height of their terror, and turns them into acclaimed works of art well, it s a lot for any reader to swallow. And yet Parade goes down easy. Really easy. Entertainment Weekly
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Readers will come face-to-face with one of the most disturbing villains since Hannibal Lector. The Vancouver Sun
Nykanen crafts another masterfully creepy thriller. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Nykanen (The Bone Parade) mines the complex world of abandonment, adoption and birth mother searches in an extremely bloody serial killer thriller that takes derivative elements (the female-in-peril plot; the psychotic, abused-as-a-child murderer) to new heights of creepiness...
Portland-based Suzanne Trayle is a famous search angel; a sort of private detective for adoptees looking for their biological parents. The serial killer, a psychiatrist, lives in Phoenix and travels the country murdering mothers who gave up their babies for adoption. Publishers Weekly
