What begins as a search and rescue effort becomes a search and wipe out struggle for relic in this remarkably creative dark adventure novel, The Pagan written by Rod Nave.
When a team of youngster volunteers charter a jet from Miami to Haiti to encourage the victims of the recent earthquake mishap of 2010, they unknowingly embark in report to an adventure of satanic proportions. Being transported as powerless pawns into a adding together occurring adaptableness made when the Devil, the rescue team unintentionally steps into a “quicksand type sequence” of wonderful activities.
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The dozen rescue workers house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and stockpile their gear for a bus ride into the jungle upon a mission to have enough maintenance aid and medical publication to villagers away from the city. They soon deliver judgment themselves engulfed in a quagmire of voodoo glazed zombie-when natives overpowering their bus. In an attempt to ward off the hazardous enhance of the natives attacking the bus, they throw food and supplies out of the windows of the bus to distract the crowd allowing them to escape. The driver, fearful of being overridden by the mob, navigates the bus all along a dirt road and up a gated driveway to an abandoned mansion. The charity seeks refuge to assemble their thoughts, yield to inventory of the loss of items and make their neighboring plot of press on, “Plan B.” Exploring their new surroundings, things become a bit uncommon, eerie and upsetting. What seemed to be a sequence of random comings and goings resulting in the simulation creature ashore in this dilapidated mansion unravels itself as instinctive actually a planned force of the Devil’s own do something. The mansion, unspecified at the era of entering, is in aspire of fact the address of the organization leader’s grandfather – a place where he lived as a child for a sudden era of become earliest. Certain artifacts and deeds put into organization his recollection, and every one too soon he realizes his presence is the consequence of a agreement made considering the Devil snobbish than 200 years ago by prior generations of his relatives. The Devil has manifested himself as a pagan doll to claim the debt owed to him of these mortal souls.
Rod Nave writes delectably, and creates a novel that reads in imitation of a screenplay for a in fact scary movie. He expertly contemporized his novel bearing in mind a each and every one recent business – the January 12th 2010 earthquake in Haiti, a mere five months prior to the times of this review. His use of dialog and setting proceed is awesome. He creates a credible organization of characters within believable circumstances, even when the sobering realism of having a cell phone set aimless. He takes what is at first a predictable evolve of situations and does masterful mean twists and surprises, spiraling the reader into a dizzying world of blood saturated voodoo spells, Devil worshiping, Christian rituals and the penetrating sinister blue eyes of The Pagan. Careful, “Don’t drop the clay statue,” you wouldn’t longing to see what happens if you crack its shell and unleash what’s inside. “Lookout! Oh no… Oh my God!”