From the bestselling author of Devil's Kitchen and Redbelly Crossing. A Penguin audio exclusive, narrated by a full cast. Dr Dave Wickerson has spent his life commanding respect - renowned surgeon, 9/11 medical hero and now a soon-to-be published author. But when his short fuse explodes on a call centre clerk, Dave assumes it's just another outburst his assistant will clean up. He's dead wrong. The man on the other end of the line is no ordinary clerk. He's an inmate inside New York's notorious Attica Correctional Facility, and someone with nothing left to lose. From inside his prison cell, the caller launches a campaign of terror that shatters Dave's his patients are threatened, his home is invaded and his glittering reputation is dragged into the mud. Desperate, Dave turns to the one person he swore he'd never ask for help - his estranged daughter Constance. But as Constance peels back the layers of the story, she discovers unsettling the so-called monster behind bars may not be the only one with blood on his hands. Ring, ring . . .
Authors
Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney's western suburbs composed of half-, adopted and pseudo siblings. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster-carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories to her mother and older brothers. As a cynical and trouble-making teenager, her crime and gothic fiction writing was an escape from the calamity of her home life. She was constantly in trouble for reading Anne Rice in church and scaring her friends with tales from Australia's wealth of true crime writers. Bankstown born and bred, she failed to conform to military life in a brief stint as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy at age eighteen. At twenty, she turned her hand to academia, and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. Candice lectures in writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, while undertaking a PhD in literary censorship and terrorism. Hades is her first novel, and she is currently working on its sequel.
