Devils in exile: a novel

✍ Scribed by Chuck Hogan

• Publisher: Scribner;Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 168 KB
• Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York;Boston (Mass.);Massachusetts;Boston
• ISBN: 141655923X

✦ Synopsis

WithPrince of Thievessoon to be a movie under the titleThe Townstarring Ben Affleck andMad Men’s Jon Hamm, and Hogan’s recent vampire novelThe Strain, coauthored with Guillermo del Toro, an instantNew York Timesbestseller, Chuck Hogan is a star on the rise. Now, withDevils in Exile, he displays his trademark gift for pulse-pounding action and strong characterization in a gripping drama that is sure to further raise his profile and give him the audience he so richly deserves.

When Neal Maven and a crew of fellow Iraq War veterans begin ripping off Boston-area drug dealers for profit, their lives are quickly put into jeopardy. As Maven’s involvement deepens, two worrisome things happen: he begins to suspect that their leader has a sinister ulterior motive, and he lusts after the leader’s girl—a tough former model with a drug problem. As the rip-off jobs get riskier, Maven and his crew are soon pursued by both a smart federal DEA agent and by a pair of psychopathic Jamaican hit men on a drug lords’ payroll. When everything goes bad—and it goes very bad—Maven embarks on a one-man crusade to right the wrongs in which he unwittingly participated. Not everyone will survive his crusade, and Maven himself may not live to see the final outcome….

Vividly told and featuring a stunningly complex plot,Devils in Exileis Chuck Hogan’s most satisfying and powerful thriller yet.

✦ Subjects

Suspense