SALEM'S CHILD Tortured and mutilated, the witches of Salem went screaming to their deaths. For almost three hundred years their souls writhed in exquisite agony, helpless to act. Then the boy came. He was young, trusting... receptive to their boundless hatred; an empty vessel waiting to be filled with the burning poison of their revenge. Like a plague rat, he carried their contagion from victim to victim, infecting minds, corrupting bodies, and condemning souls to everlasting torment. Beware his luminous green eyes, for they radiate sickness and death, beware this foul... CHILD OF SALEM (ABADDON was previously published in paperback as SALEM'S CHILD. It is set in modern day Salem and Danvers, MA, and is approximately 81,000 words long.) About the Author Robert W. Walker is the author of more than forty thriller and horror novels, including the acclaimed INSTINCT series featuring FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran. This ebook also contains an excerpt from THE SERPENT FIRE by Robert W. Walker, and ORIGIN by J.A. Konrath. Praise for Robert W. Walker "Masterful." — Clive Cussler "Ingenious." — San Francisco Examiner "Gruesome." — The Sunday Oklahoman "Frightening." — Midwest Book Review." "Bone-chilling." — Publisher's Weekly "Perfect for Patricia Cornwell fans." — Mystery Scene "Walker is a master at the top of his game." — Jack Kilborn
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Aka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold—the Windy City one and the Southern one—all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
