Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from October, 2018

Mutation by Roy Hunt

Title: Mutation Author: Roy Hunt Published: Twilight Books Genre: Horror, Thriller I was given an ARC from Twilight Books through NetGalley. May 1997 Bacteria are earth’s oldest inhabitants. They are all around us and inside us. They help us clean up our planet; they are the reason we can continue to live on this earth. So what happens when we manipulate and abuse them? What happens when we make them angry? Driven by grief at the loss of his wife, an old man has gone out onto an Irish midlands lake to end his life. Only the sight of a burning cruiser stops him. He might want to die, but others on board the stricken vessel might not. The vessel is called Clothra and the crew are engaged in a desperate struggle. There is something very bad in the water, a vile creature that is killing the lake’s users. They have to destroy it. But not all of them feel the same. Forced to abandon the vessel for a lifeboat, the crew attempt to lure the creature in the water to follow them, b