Publisher's Synopsis
"The disintegration of a man, living in a nightmare within a nightmare. Evocative and haunting." ALAN GRANT, bestselling author and prolific comic writer for Batman and 2000AD.."D. A. Butcher's Eyes of Sleeping Children resonates deeply with our present moment. It is at once a pulse-pounding psychological thriller and a meditation on family and love and resilience. Butcher has delivered an impressive debut. You won't put it down!" ADAM BRADLEY, co-author of New York Times bestseller, One Day It'll All Make Sense..'The thing that stands out most to me about this debut novel is the prose. Smooth as butter. You will not be left guessing. D.A has a way with words, and his descriptions are lush and dark. A remarkable debut and I expect more rich stories out of D. A. Butcher.' MICHAEL CLARK, author of The Patience of a Dead Man series. .'Butcher has the skills and talents of a much more seasoned writer. The twists and turns that lead up to the grand finale are mind-bindingly well-conceived. A psychological twisted world that sends shivers racing up and down your spine. One of the best debut novels I have ever read, indeed one of the best psychological thrillers I have ever read, period.' BOOKLYTICAL.COM, book blog and review site..'A gripping and compelling narrative, which pulls you into the poverty and hardships of the mid-West Dust Bowl. The tension creeps as surely as the dust, and there's an undertone of repressed violence and almost supernatural darkness that swims to the surface as the book races towards its conclusion. Raw and beautiful and evocative, this is a book that deserves to be read.' FOXFANG BOOKS, online Etsy book-store..THE NOVEL: AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER. A MISSING CHILD. A MAN WHO WOULD KILL FOR HIS FAMILY..Louis Lockhart and family take shelter from the worst storm to ever hit Kansas - The Beast of Black Sunday. Jesse pleads with his father to not let the Sandman get him. That night, Jesse vanishes from their home. A grief-stricken Bonnie, believes the Sandman has taken Jesse to protect him from the end of the world. Louis searches tirelessly for their missing son, while insidious things creep back from his past and threaten to tear his family to pieces.Louis must become the man he thought he left behind to save his family, but Bonnie's Sandman creeps ever closer....THE AUTHOR: Dylan Alfredo Giovanni Butcher is half British, half Italian and grew up in London, England. He worked as a comic and movie journalist for three years, voluntarily, to refine his writing skills. He has won writing competitions for his short-stories and poetry, and been shortlisted for others, in Writing Magazine and Writer's Forum. He recently had a short-story placed in an anthology. He now lives in the Midlands with his wife and three children. Dylan is studying towards his Master's Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing with the Open University, while writing fiction and self-publishing his work. Eyes of Sleeping Children is his debut novel.
