"It sounded easy. Find a missing kid. Eighteen years old. Only he was dead. Died at birth. So why was his mother so sure he was still alive? Alive and calling for help.
The assignement took me to Hell. And that's where I'd come from, only I didn't know it at the time. Matter of fact, there were a lot of things I didn't know about myself. I just thought I was different, not the kind you'd expect to be a private investigaror. But I was wrong. Like I'd been wrong for most of my uncharmed life. Because I was more than that."

This book is now travelling with Qantaga's bookbox.

not good, not bad ---> 5 points !!!

Recieved in a bookrelay from Komsomolskij all the way from Germany. Thanks for the quick shipping!

Truly disturbing novel from Herbert! I've read a few others by Herbert and they have all been pretty good horror/thriller novels but he exceeded himself with this one. It tells the story of the redemption of Nicholas Dismas, a private investigator with a deformed body who describes himself as a monster. A client hires him to locate her missing son that she thought died during childbirth. At first, Dismas goes through the motions of an investigation but does not believe there is any chance of success. But then with the help of a clairvoyant, he discovers a decades old cover-up involving children born with indescribable deformities at a nursing home called Perfect Rest. There, he encounters Dr. Leonard Wisbeech, one of the most diabolically perverse doctors ever encountered, and the secret experiments that shed light on the case and on Dismas's own origins. This all leads to a very shocking conclusion.

I was really engrossed in this one and would recommend it but be prepared to be disturbed!

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I've had this book on my TBR shelf for ten years. Finally read it as part of the Oldest TBR Reading & Release Challenge 2016. Making available for now.

This was not selected from the Mystery VBB so releasing at the Franklin Library in Elk Grove, CA.

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