He'll sacrifice anything to save them...even his humanity."The 5 Stars. Action fans and sci-fi fans will love this one. It’s fast paced and definitely leaves me wanting more from the series." ~ Tabatha S., Amazon review The world became aware of them sixty years people with remarkable physical and sometimes psychic power, often with terrifying deformities. Most folks call them deviants or use slurs like “deev.” They call themselves omnihumans. For Sergeant Manic Cruce, hunting deviants isn’t just a job, it’s a personal calling. As an officer of the national Normative Policy Division, or N.P.D, he believes that deevs are a threat to the very fabric of society. He does his best to see to it that they’re rounded up and locked away in order to protect the average Joe. When money’s tight, he’s not above getting a little blood on his hands with some off-the-books violence in support of the status quo. He loves his job, and he’s damn good at it. He’d wipe ’em all off the face of the earth if he could, because every deev out there is a threat to mankind, including his only child—even if she is a naïve college girl devoted to protecting the civil rights of the very deviants he arrests. Manic’s world—and identity—get turned inside-out when a deviant he’s just eliminated turns out to be one of the good guys, using his supernatural powers to protect children from ruthless traffickers. Manic has no choice but to take up the dead man’s mantle and play guardian angel... Deep in the concrete labyrinth that the traffickers use as their base of operations, Manic’s clarity of purpose is thrown into chaos. Humans, he learns, can be far worse than any deviant. And protecting those most innocent may not only cost him his life...but his own humanity as well.Award-winning novelist, former writer for Spawn, and Bram Stoker Award finalist Tom Leveen introduces you to a world far too much like our own in this gritty, supernatural noir novel.
Author
Tom Leveen is the author of nine novels originally with imprints of Random House, Simon & Schuster, Abrams, and more. He has written with Todd McFarlane on SPAWN, the comic book series, and fiction for the TTRPG BattleTech for Topps, Inc. Recently an early literacy specialist with Phoenix Public Library, Tom has twelve years of previous library work experience. He also has 22 years of theatre experience as an actor and director, and has been the Artistic Director for two different award-winning theatre companies. Tom wrote his first story in second grade and has been writing and telling stories ever since. His first horror novel, SICK, won the Westchester Fiction Award and the Grand Canyon Reader Award. His novel ZERO was a Best Book of 2013 (American Library Association/Young Adult Library Services Association). A frequent guest speaker and teacher, Tom has taught, paneled, and/or keynoted for SCBWI, RWA, Desert Nights Rising Stars, Phoenix ComiCon, AzLA, NCTE, TEDx, People of Color Network, Western New Mexico University, Arizona State University, Arizona Reading Association, Kennesaw State University, multiple schools and conferences throughout Germany, AETA, the Los Angeles Teen Book Fest, and many others. In addition, apropos of absolutely nothing, Tom: Finished a marathon (in six and half hours) and a triathalon sprint in 2 hours, earned a blue belt in Tae Kwon Do, co-hosted a public access comedy show, directed 30 plays and acted in 30 more, ran a theatre company out of his backyard, met almost all of his literary heroes except for Stephen King, played in a punk band live in front of actual people (once), prefers the Hero System but nevertheless runs a warlock minotaur and storm cleric elf when time permits, trained at the Utah Shakespeare Festival Actor Training program for five sessions, was Best Masque & Gavel Member in high school, lettered in Speech, has a rock in one finger from a pretty bad bail on his (now stolen) Tony Hawk, was the safari train driver for the Phoenix Zoo for a short time, worked in the stock room for Forever 21 for an even shorter time, completed a Spartan Sprint with three friends, and spent twenty years earning his Bachelor of Science degree. He is currently in an MFA program at a major international university. So if there's something you want to do, go do it.
