#Titanuary ‘Among The Living’ by Tim Lebbon

About the book…

From the New York Times bestseller and author of Netflix’s ‘The Silence’ comes a terrifying horror novel set in a melting Arctic landscape. Something deadly has lain dormant for thousands of years, but now the permafrost is giving up its secrets…

Estranged friends Dean and Bethan meet after five years apart when they are drawn to a network of caves on a remote Arctic island. Bethan and her friends are environmental activists, determined to protect the land. But Dean’s group’s exploitation of rare earth minerals deep in the caves unleashes an horrific contagion that has rested frozen and undisturbed for many millennia. Fleeing the terrors emerging from the caves, Dean and Bethan and their rival teams undertake a perilous journey on foot across an unpredictable and volatile landscape. The ex-friends must learn to work together again if they’re to survive… and more importantly, stop the horror from spreading to the wider world.

A propulsive horror thriller––fast-moving, frightening, and shockingly relevant—this adventure will grip you until the final terrifying page.

Due to be published in paperback and e-book formats , ‘Among The Living’ is a horrific return to form for the best selling author, Tim Lebbon

He neatly takes a climate change agenda, spins it into a Frankenstein-esque abomination fable , buries it deep in the ice and blows it all up on the very first page, leaving his characters facing insurmountable odds to save humanity.

But is it worth saving?

An undercover eco-anarchist has infilitrated an expedition to an island on the Arctic tundra ostensibly to collect mineral samples, but in realiry to sell the lcoation to the highest bidder.

Hot on their trails are an eco-anarchist group looking to stop them, both parties so caught up in their own self serving agendas that they what they find, hidden for millennia, may just be better off staying where it is.

That need to know, to see and to experience , taints human endeavours, it is what makes us inventors, pioneers and endlessly questing to all corners of the earth. But it is also the cause of our undoing, making situations unstoppable and unfathomable, where not learning from past mistakes leaves us repeating them ad nauseum.

It has all the elements of a great horror action film, with characteristic Tim techniques-the jaw dropping moments, the slow reveals, the multi layered characters and their internal, and in this case, external journey to acknowledgement of the parts they have played in preceding events. Validation, treachery and betrayal are all subjective emotions, what is clear here is that this situation, whilst new to the characters here, has historical precedent and what is clear is that sacrifice is required.

I enjoyed every minute of it, the storm was battering around the house, it was bloody freezing and yet I felt it would be warmer than the filmic atmosphere Tim weaved through the pages of Among The Living

About the author…

Tim Lebbon was born in London in 1969. He has been writing ever since he can remember. The first story he recalls actually finishing was when he was nine years old. It involved a train hijacking, and one of the hijackers being clumsy enough to drop his gun. Naturally the hero found the gun and went on a killing spree. Die Hard on the 10:17 from Paddington.

His first published story was in the UK indie magazine Psychotrope in 1994, and in 1997 Tanjen published his first novel Mesmer. Since then he’s had almost thirty books published in the UK and US by Bantam Spectra, Allison & Busby, Night Shade Books, Simon & Schuster, Leisure Books, PS Publishing, Necessary Evil Press, Cemetery Dance and many others.

Quite a few of his novellas and novels have been optioned for the screen, including White, Exorcising Angels, Until She Sleeps, Face, In Perpetuiry, and The Nature of Balance.

Late in 2006 Tim Lebbon became a full-time writer.

This source of this biography was Tim Lebbon’s official website www.timlebbon.net.

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