Under the Lake by Stuart Woods
Under the Lake
In the beautiful mountains of North Georgia lies a lake built by an obsessed man at a terrible price. This placid body of water has brought prosperity to an isolated community, and with it, two strangers who intermingle with the insular local folk, strangers probing into crimes against nature from generations past that cannot remain submerged beneath the waters' surface.
Under the Lake marks the eagerly awaited return to the South of his Edgar Award winning novel Chiefs. John Howell, once a top investigative journalist, comes to this backcountry town on the run from a once promising personal and professional life that has somehow gone sour. What he finds is a mystery so deep, so complex, so bizarre, that he cannot concentrate on the book he has come here to write.
The story begins with his entanglement in a subtle, but relentless battle waged by the autocratic town father and the local sheriff against an outcast family, ravaged by its origins. Howell is further drawn in by his involvement with two women - an ambitious young reporter on the prowl for corruption, and a shy backwoods beauty, forsaken by the world because of her family's ill kept secret. Then, without warning, visits from an otherworldly young girl haunt Howell as his rustic cabin becomes a spectral theater offering strange and frightening images of a hideous event of long ago.
Here is a truly mesmerizing psychological thriller, a story of the dark underside of a Southern town and its inhabitants. It is a story only Stuart Woods could write. Under the Lake is his most compelling work yet.
What people are saying:
"Under the Lake is overwhelming. Part detective story, part Southern gothic - I've never read a novel like it in my life. Oh, Jesus, that lake, that lake and all that lies beneath it! Everything is swept away by the simple raw power of the concept and Stuart Woods' ability to actually carry it off. Under the Lake scared the living shit out of me, at the same time it was satisfying me with its flow, characters and humor. Christ, I'll have nightmares about that lake! "
- Stephen King
"Mezmerizing, could not put this book down to save my life... spent every spare moment reading this just to see what will happen, I definitely recomend this story to anyone captivated by a good ghost tail"
- my review
In the beautiful mountains of North Georgia lies a lake built by an obsessed man at a terrible price. This placid body of water has brought prosperity to an isolated community, and with it, two strangers who intermingle with the insular local folk, strangers probing into crimes against nature from generations past that cannot remain submerged beneath the waters' surface.
Under the Lake marks the eagerly awaited return to the South of his Edgar Award winning novel Chiefs. John Howell, once a top investigative journalist, comes to this backcountry town on the run from a once promising personal and professional life that has somehow gone sour. What he finds is a mystery so deep, so complex, so bizarre, that he cannot concentrate on the book he has come here to write.
The story begins with his entanglement in a subtle, but relentless battle waged by the autocratic town father and the local sheriff against an outcast family, ravaged by its origins. Howell is further drawn in by his involvement with two women - an ambitious young reporter on the prowl for corruption, and a shy backwoods beauty, forsaken by the world because of her family's ill kept secret. Then, without warning, visits from an otherworldly young girl haunt Howell as his rustic cabin becomes a spectral theater offering strange and frightening images of a hideous event of long ago.
Here is a truly mesmerizing psychological thriller, a story of the dark underside of a Southern town and its inhabitants. It is a story only Stuart Woods could write. Under the Lake is his most compelling work yet.
What people are saying:
"Under the Lake is overwhelming. Part detective story, part Southern gothic - I've never read a novel like it in my life. Oh, Jesus, that lake, that lake and all that lies beneath it! Everything is swept away by the simple raw power of the concept and Stuart Woods' ability to actually carry it off. Under the Lake scared the living shit out of me, at the same time it was satisfying me with its flow, characters and humor. Christ, I'll have nightmares about that lake! "
- Stephen King
"Mezmerizing, could not put this book down to save my life... spent every spare moment reading this just to see what will happen, I definitely recomend this story to anyone captivated by a good ghost tail"
- my review
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