Chancery Stone. (1014 pages)
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"I couldn't put it down. It feels like I ran out of methadone and I'm sweating and swearing and throwing things. Chancery Stone is fucking brilliant. Fucking brilliant. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck."
DANNY Volume 1 is the first book in the DANNY QUADRILOGY and sets the scene for us in the distinctly non-picturesque West coast of rural Cumbria, where farming rests cheek by jowl with industrial ports and open-cast coal mines. It is 1984 and Danny, the eponymous hero, is about to turn twenty.
Danny is the youngest son in the disturbingly dysfunctional Jackson Moore family, a family that is held in a kind of reverential awe - and more than a little fear. Fear of their rapidly declining drunken father. Fear of John, the eldest brother, whose temper is legendary. Fear of Ian whose insidious envy has led to more unhappiness than anyone can imagine. Even fear of Danny, the youngest, whose supernatural beauty unsettles as many people as it captivates.
It soon becomes apparent that there are some old dangerous resentments, and even older dangerous desires, festering behind the carefully constructed facade of this family's life.
When a sudden violent event opens the floodgates, the brothers start to engage in a monstrous game of one-upmanship, determined to outrank each other in acts of more and more outrageous behaviour where bravado is taken to psychotic lengths.
With Ian egging them on the game is soon taken outside the previously unbreachable family walls, allowing outsiders - acolytes of Danny's beauty, jealous of John's power, and foolishly determined to wrest it from him - to enter into the affray with no idea of what dangerous waters they are swimming.
"Jesus fucking Christ on a stick!"
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DANNY Volume Two - The Revenant
Chancery Stone (824 pages)
ISBN 978-0-9546115-1-4 & 978-0-9546115-2-1
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"I don't think I like the sound of you," Danny said. "Consider me a man with a mission. And that mission doesn't include you." He paused. "What I'm saying is," and he turned suddenly and looked at him, "don't start believing you saw anything. Don't start believing what you want to believe. Know the story of the apostle Peter?" He didn't wait for Andy to acknowledge that he did. "Well that man was me. I'll deny you so fast they'll have you nailed up and sun-dried before the last crow is out. You want to find out how sexy you are try your brother. Try Stephen, Rab, anybody. But not me. You think you're smart. You think because you know something about me you know it all. You think I'm a safe bet. I'd agree. If we were anywhere else I'd agree. But not here, not with my fucking meal ticket. It's a game to you. Not for him. Not for either of them. And not for me. And let me tell you one more thing. One very serious, important thing. You get in my way and I'll step on you. I'll step on you so hard you'll hear your own back breaking."
Six years have passed and Danny has unexpectedly returned, like a revenant revisiting the scene of the crime, a ghost haunting his own grave.
He has finally fulfilled Ian's prophecy and become the lost boy of his brother's old and favoured fairy tale, the Snow Queen. He is a dead man walking, the ice splinter now wedged so deeply inside his heart no-one can reach him.
He repeatedly warns people of his own heartlessness, only for them to ignore him, heedlessly disregarding his honesty, believing they will be the one to raise him from the dead, their own Personal Jesus.
Unfortunately, tortured Messiah or not, he consumes his new disciples with a numbing ferocity, sucking perversion and emotional sustenance from them like something long-dead desperately seeking heat, while they, blinded by the maimed beauty of his self-immolation at John's altar, are too slow to realise that touching his martyr's heart may well be beyond the capability of anyone living, and that something altogether more disturbing might be lurking behind his zealot's mission to embrace his darkling past and re-enter the lion's den of his old family home.
Yes, Danny has finally come home.
The question is... why?
DANNY 2 is published in TWO exciting editions. The standard Personal Jesus Edition and the more extreme I'll Be Your Dog Edition.
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