The Pack

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'Jason Starr is hypnotically good' Lee Child Let the hunt begin . . .When Simon Burns is fired from his job without warning, he takes on the role of stay-at-home dad for his three-year-old son. But his reluctance pushes his already strained marriage to the limit. In the nestled playgrounds of the Upper West Side, Simon harbors a simmering rage at his boss's betrayal.Things take a turn when he meets a tight-knit trio of dads at the playground. They are different from other men Simon has met, stronger and more confident, more at ease with the darker side of life- and soon Simon is lured into their mix. But after a guys' night out gets frighteningly out of hand, Simon feels himself sliding into a new nightmarish reality.As he experiences disturbing changes in his body and his perceptions, he starts to suspect that when the guys welcomed him to their "pack", they were talking about much more than male bonding . . .

Jason Starr was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is the award-winning author of a number of acclaimed crime novels which have been international bestsellers. He now lives in Manhattan and is currently writing The Craving, the sequel to The Pack. Find out more at jasonstarr.com.

Jason Starr is hypnotically good -- Lee Child The ultimate page turner -- Michael Connelly Manhattan receives a lustrous varnish of black, black humor in this sly urban fantasy thriller...Starr once again shows a real gift for satiric humor and capturing the contemporary New York scene * Publishers Weekly *