by Barry Napier
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Gabe is a disenchanted twenty year-old that has been dragged down for most of his life by the bizarre legacy his deceased father left behind. At the age of seventeen, Gabe was contacted by government employees that once worked with his father, offering him an outrageous salary if he would take part in an effort to revitalize his father’s work. Bit by bit, Gabe discovers that the work his father was involved in was incredibly strange. His father was viewed by his peers as a mad scientist of sorts, dabbling in controversial projects concerning genetics manipulation, advanced space exploration, time travel, and ESP.
Cold Compass, the first book in the Everything Theory series, opens as Gabe is tasked with his first assignment as an unofficial member of a shadow organization known as the Center for Scientific Anomalous Research (CSAR). With the assistance of a CSAR official posing as an FBI agent, Gabe travels to the small town of Hasper, North Carolina where people are being killed by an ancient evil that lurks beneath the town. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Gabe learns that it could all very well be the result of one of his father’s failed studies.
Along the way, Gabe must also contend with the fact that he is beginning to see ghosts and is being hunted down by an enigmatic figure that calls himself Garrison Sleet. As he slowly unravels the mysteries of his father, Gabe slowly understands that even the evil lurking beneath Hasper is tied to not only his father’s work, but to some integral part of him as well.
AUTHOR BIO
Barry has had more than 40 short stories and poems featured in print and online publications. He is the author of Everything Theory: Cold Compass, The Masks of Our Fathers, 13 Broken Nightlights, and The Bleeding Room.
A collection of his short fiction, Debris, was published by Library of Horror Press in 2009 but is currently out of print (many of the stories featured in Debris can be found in his newer collection, 13 Broken Nightlights). In 2010, his debut poetry collection, A Mouth for Picket Fences, was published by Needfire Poetry.
Barry is also the author of the horror/sci-fi chapbook The Final Study of Cooper M. Reid which is currently only available in limited quantities through Strange Publications.
A humble servant to ambient music and coffee, Barry continues to work towards further self publishing projects as well as pursuing traditional markets. He is currently at work on a series of novels and a comic book series.
He keeps his online home at http://barrynapierwriting.wordpress.com/
OTHER WORKS
Birdwatching from Mars
13 Broken Nightlights
The Only Moth Among the Dark
The Bleeding Room
The Masks of Our Fathers
Shadows of the Emerald City
Fifty-two Stitches
Debris
Sand
A Mouth for Picket Fences
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