Red Moon: A Novel [Paperback]

A werewolf epic. Can't stop thinking about it. --Stephen King

They live among us.

They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers.

They change.

When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is.

Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero.

Chase Williams has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy.

So far, the threat has been controlled by laws and violence and drugs. But the night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge...and the battle for humanity will begin.Benjamin Percy has won a Whiting Writers Award, a Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of the novelThe Wildingand two short story collections,Refresh, RefreshandThe Language of Elk(available as an ebook from Grand Central Publishing). He lives in Minnesota with his family. For more information, you can visitwww.BenjaminPercy.com. Percy's latest novel is a smart, action-packed political thriller. . . . It's a high-wire literary act that the author pulls off with panache. Entertainment Weekly's Must List It would be tempting, or at least easier, to put Percy's book in the werewolf subgenre, butRed Moonis much more than that. Dark, bloody, violent, relentlessly grounded in the post-9/11 world and the Pacific Northwest, not without humor but sparing in its application,Red Mooncould well serve as theHeart of Darknessof a new, more anxious generation, one that must somehow come to terms with the enemies, real or perceived, who live quietly among us. The Ol£N