Last Days
Last Days
Author: Brian Evenson
Desc: Intense and profoundly unsettling Brian Evenson’s Last Days is a down-the-rabbit-hole detective novel set in an underground religious cult. The story follows Kline a brutally dismembered detective forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside the cult. As Kline becomes more deeply involved with the group he begins to realize the stakes are higher than he previously thought. Attempting to find his way through a maze of lies threats and misinformation Kline discovers that his survival depends on an act of sheer will. Last Days was first published in 2003 as a limited edition novella titled The Brotherhood of Mutilation. Its success led Evenson to expand the story into a full-length novel. In doing so he has created a work that’s disturbing deeply satisfying and completely original.