The Dead Man Volume 7, Mel Odom
The Dead Man Volume 7, Mel Odom
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The Dead Man Volume 7
Crucible of Fire, The Dark Need, and The Rising Dead

Author: Mel Odom, Stant Litore, Stella Green, Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/24/2014


Synopsis

After dying in a freak accident, Matt Cahill inexplicably “wakes up” three months later with the disturbing ability to see things—terrible things—that others cannot. Drafted as a warrior in the battle between good and evil, Matt will stop at nothing to destroy the malevolent Mr. Dark. In The Dead Man Volume 7, a trio of sinister new stories tracks the reluctant hero on his nightmarish quest.Matt Cahill is part of a team of smokejumpers who are dropped into the heart of a raging forest fire that is fueled by a flamethrower-wielding madman under the sway of Mr. Dark. Almost every living thing in this hellacious Crucible of Fire, including Matt’s fellow firefighters, are falling prey to Mr. Dark’s evil touch and bowing to his furious command: Kill the Dead Man!Matt is tracking a blood-sucking, shape-shifting killer through the icy Cascade Mountains when he encounters a mysterious woman who is on the same corpse-strewn trail...but who has a terrifying secret of her own...and an unspeakable lust for The Dark Need.In the blasted hell of the Arizona desert, Matt hitches a ride with a young couple who meets a terrible fate that he’s powerless to stop. The bloody encounter leads him to a deadly stranger who may know why Matt became part of The Rising Dead. But first they must survive in an unforgiving wasteland to do battle with a gang of heavily-armed smugglers who trade in human flesh.

About Mel Odom

Mel Odom lives in Oklahoma with his wife and children. He’s written dozens of novels in a variety of fields and many based on popular television shows and role-playing games. He currently teaches in the Professional Writing program at the University of Oklahoma.

About Stant Litore

Born a farmer's son in the Pacific Northwest, Stant Litore took the college road and eventually earned his PhD in English, but remains passionate for things that grow. He spent several years in a dim corner of a library, repairing bruised and battered books, before heading overseas to backpack through Europe. Haunted by the hunger and poverty he witnessed at home and abroad, he began spinning stories about the hungers that devour us and the hopes that preserve us. He is the author of the acclaimed horror series The Zombie Bible. Today he lives in Colorado with his wife and their two daughters, writing about the restless dead and the restless living. He avoids certain parts of the mountains during the dark of the moon.

About Stella Green

Stella Green is a former entertainment executive and the author of Awakening Snakes. She currently lives in Los Angeles and is working on her next book.

About Lee Goldberg

Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award–nominated TV producer and a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. His many books include the long-running Diagnosis Murder and Monk mysteries, The Walk, King City, Watch Me Die, and the international bestseller The Heist, which he co-wrote with Janet Evanovich. His numerous TV writing and producing credits include Diagnosis Murder, Monk, SeaQuest, Nero Wolfe, and The Glades. He's also worked as a consultant for TV networks and studios in Europe, Canada, and Sweden and has served on the Board of the Mystery Writers of America.

About William Rabkin

William Rabkin is a two-time Edgar Award nominee who writes the Psych series of novels and is the author of Writing the Pilot. He has consulted for studios in Canada, Germany, and Spain on television series production and teaches screenwriting at UCLA Extension and as an adjunct professor in UC Riverside’s low-residency master’s program.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Quentin

3.5 Stars I hate to see this series end, especially since it pretty much ended on a cliffhanger! The Dead Man series is about a man who was brought back from the dead with superhuman powers (not like Superman level, but maybe just under Wolverine as healing is his main ability) to do battle with an ot......more

Goodreads review by Brandon

For anyone that has read the previous books in the series these are pretty standard fair at this point. The First Story, Crucible of Fire, was enjoyable. The Dark Need, was interesting but I didn't really like some of the writing style, mainly some of the ways that the author would try to describe s......more

Goodreads review by Jeannie

This novel has some very talented and intriguing writers who know how to pen stories that keep the reader wondering what will happen next. In recent years we have seen and watched (hopefully on TV) raging fires ravaging our beautiful countryside. In this novel, Matt Cahill is one of those smokejumpe......more

Goodreads review by Justin

Here we have the seventh collection of novellas in the Dead Man series. I'll assume if you're checking out volume 7, you already have an idea what this series is about. This time around, we get tales from Mel Odom, Stant Litore and Stella Green. In Crucible of Fire, Mel Odom sets main character Matt......more