'Shift Book One

'Shift Book One

Forget what you have read. Ignore what you have seen in movies and disregard the playfulness of contemporary werewolf dogma. ‘Shift is a journey that raises the werewolf from the mirk of cliché to what it always deserved to be: a predatory inspiration for terror and panic that kills scores throughout the night with a human form as lethal and alien as his lupine alter-ego. It begins late at night in Holcroft, South Dakota where two men have survived a werewolf attack and are trying to kill it. They meet Jack, who has come from Gleeson, Nebraska to kill the werewolf himself. Flashing back 2 months earlier to Gleeson, Jack and his girlfriend Jennifer have, through extraordinary events, also discovered the werewolf. Jack wants to kill him, while Jennifer disagrees, pointing out their shared belief that human life is sacred, whatever the form illness takes or the crime that’s committed, so they plan to capture him and bring him to “justice”. In ‘Shift the full malevolent history of the werewolf is told and reveals the complicit desire of the person who is marked to indulge in catastrophic acts of carnage on a scale unexplored in all previous werewolf lore. The fundamental Evil and supernatural reality of the werewolf is exposed in an uncompromising struggle, pitting Idealism against real Evil. The reader is forced to watch as Jack and Jennifer’s love for each other and their own sense of right and wrong is tested by each one’s desire to deal with the werewolf their own way – never knowing the true danger of their situation and the possible affect of its outcome on the fate of humanity. This is a moving story whose climactic events will not fail to surprise.