I’m liking this new author I recently discovered, although I have no idea why it took me so long to come across him. He’s been publishing books since before I was born, and apparently he writes what I like to read: supernatural thrillers. I like dark fantasy and horror-lite, too. Basically anything with a dark fantastical element set in the real world or a close-to-the-real world. That’s my jam.
So I went searching for a supernatural thriller a couple weeks ago, and F. Paul Wilson’s Panacea came up. It’s about a medical examiner with experience in ethnobotany who’s paired with a secretive bodyguard and hired by a sick billionaire to hunt down a magical cure-all. It wasn’t quite as supernatural-esque as I’d been wanting, but it was great in its own right. Kind of had that The Da Vinci Code feel. You know, the hunt, the search for a secret? Good stuff.
The second book, which I just finished, is called The God Gene. It’s a touch more scifi thriller than supernatural thriller, but it, too, was great in its own right. This one has more of a Jurassic Park feel, except with primates instead of dinosaurs. In it, the medical examiner and the guy she’s paired with have to find the guy’s brother, who went missing after his rare primate died. It was good.
I’m starting the third book right now. It’s called The Void Protocol. In the first two books, the secretive guy has this life theory that there are these vast intelligences that throw metaphorical wrenches into the world’s cogs to see how it’ll break down, and I’m keen to see if this story delves into those intelligences further, because that would be leaning more toward the supernatural, and it would be AWESOME. I have no idea though. I haven’t read the book blurb. I’m going in cold. So we shall see…
Megan Bledsoe 