‘A brilliantly tuned, mesmerizing labyrinth of a
quasi-real world as only a master artist could
draw it.’ – James Ellroy
‘Jack O’Connell has riffed on language, fire-
cleansed genre conventions, and stripped the
artifice from the modern noir novel, creating a
body of work both exciting and entirely original.’
– George Pelecanos
‘A masterpiece, O’Connell’s tour de force has
a dose of the uncertainty of Kafka, the fantasy
of Bradbury, the crisp prose of Greene, and the
noir of Chandler.’
– Andrew Gulli, Editor, Strand Magazine
‘Brilliant writing, original concepts, emotional
resonance’
THE
– Jeff VanderMeer, Washington Post
RESURRECTIONIST
Your only child is lost between claim to have ‘resurrected’
JACK
this world and the next, and other patients who were lost
more than anything you want in the void. What Sweeney
him back. A controversial comes to realize, however, O’CONNELL
doctor and a mysterious is that the real cure for his Jack O’Connell is the
stranger claim they have the son’s condition may lie in author of four critically
answer. Who do you trust? Are Limbo, a fantasy comic book acclaimed novels, which
you willing to risk everything? world into which his son had have earned him something
Are you prepared to enter Limbo? been drawn at the time of his of a cult status. His work
Part classic noir thriller, part
accident. Plunged into the has been praised by James
mind-bending fantasy, The
intrigue that envelops the Ellroy, George Pelecanos,
Resurrectionist is a wild
clinic, Sweeney’s search for Neil Gaiman, Katherine
ride into a territory where
answers leads to sinister back Dunn and Jonathan Carroll,
nothing is as it appears. It
alleys, brutal dead ends, and among others.
is the story of Sweeney, a
terrifying corners of darkness
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Peck Clinic, whose doctors
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