Severed

✍ Scribed by Simon Kernick

• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Limited;Corgi
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 173 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A terrifying read-in-one-gulp thriller with a killer premise: what do
you do when the woman in bed beside you is a headless corpse . . .

Straight
off I knew it was going to be a bad day. The room was stifling hot; and
when I did finally manage to drag open my eyes, all I could see was
blood. I thought I'd stepped into the middle of a nightmare.

But I was wrong. The nightmare was only just beginning.

Ex-soldier
Sean Tyler wakes up in an unfamiliar room next to the headless corpse
of a girl he's met only once. With his memory of the previous
twenty-four hours wiped clean, he's hardly out of bed before the phone
rings. A voice tells him to press play on the room's DVD machine. The
film shows him stabbing someone to death.

Tyler is confident
that the footage is fake, but will a jury see things the same way? The
man on the phone tells him to go to an address in east London, and await
instructions. Tyler knows he must do as he is told. He also knows that
the phone caller has no intention of keeping him alive.

To
survive he must recover the missing twenty-four hours of his life and
find out who's setting him up before his time runs out for good. The
clock is ticking...