Slasher

About the Book

Gary Somers was on top of the world. The arrogant host of an “in-your-face” TV talk show, Gary has all the money, success and women he can want – with only more of the same ahead. But the sleaze TV host is about to descend from the top of the world into his own special hell – a hell designed for him by a woman whose lust and obsession is beyond anything he’s ever imagined.

Slasher is a taut, psychological mystery set in contemporary New York. In the outrageous world of shock TV, no one is more shocking than Gary Somers. No one operates closer to the line – or crosses it more often – than Gary, and no one is more likely to unleash the hidden obsessions of a woman known only as Samantha. Her gradual intrusion into his life – at first trivial, later disturbing and finally deadly – will take Gary on a roller coaster ride of sexual obsession and deranged violence unlike any story he’s ever put before the screen.

The search for Samantha will reach back twenty years to another brutal crime buried in a small town’s past, and reach forward to a cold night in a Manhattan loft building where Gary and Samantha confront each other in a climax of madness and fear. By the time this relentless, suspense thriller is finished, readers will have been taken on a roller coaster of their own.

About the Author

A graduate of the City University of New York creative writing program, Howard Sundwall has held many jobs in his career: cab driver, salesman, computer programmer, manager and executive, the last as director of information technology at several telecommunications companies in the Northeast. Having spent the majority of his life in New York, he writes about the people and locales of that city with the intimate knowledge of a native. He now lives with his wife and son in Chester County, Pennsylvania.