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A Trail of Blood on the Snow

Sam Lee author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Barbican Press

Publishing:23rd Jul '25

£10.99

This title is due to be published on 23rd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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A startling debut noir. A Trail of Blood on the Snow is a chilling exploration of masculinity, madness, and the harrowing legacy of abuse.

"He remembers me. He remembers the screaming and the blood on the snow. He remembers everything, I can tell."

Rex is 41. Halfway to death and no happier for it. Any promise of a better life got stifled decades ago, when Rex was a limping school kid and Max was the school bully.

Then, a chance encounter. Max standing smug and handsome at a gas station with his oh-so-perfect family.

Rex secretly follows them home. Watches them. Thinks about his own miserable life. What Max did to him, and how a real man would claim revenge.

Rex acts.

Is this the making of a monster, or the breaking of a man?

"Wow! An extraordinary work of fiction from a writer who truly understands the darkness at the centre of the human condition. A true must-read."
– David Mark, best-selling author of the Aector McAvoy series

ISBN: 9781909954281

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

156 pages