ABOUT THE AUTHOR MATTHEW COSTELLO’S work includes innovative and critically acclaimed novels, games, and television shows. His novel Beneath Still Waters was filmed by Lionsgate in 2007, and his latest original novel is Nowhere. He’s written for PBS, The Disney Channel, The Sci-Fi Channel, and the BBC, among others. He’s scripted dozens of bestselling and award-winning games, including The 7th Guest, Doom 3, and Pirates of the Carribbean: At World’s End. You can learn more at www.mattcostello.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Matthew Costello’s work includes innovative and critically acclaimed novels, games, and television. His novelBeneath Still Waters was filmed by Lionsgate last year, and his latest novel,Nowhere, was published in 2007. He’s written for PBS, The Disney Channel, The Sci-Fi Channel, and the BBC among others. He’s scripted dozens of bestselling and award-winning games includingThe 7th Guest, Doom 3, andPirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. You can learn more at www.mattcostello.com.

In the near future after a global crisis causes crops to fail and species to disappear… something even more deadly happens. Groups of humans around the world suddenly become predators, feeding off their own kind. These “Can Heads” grow to such a threat that fences, gated compounds, and SWAT-style police protection become absolutely necessary in order to live. After one Can Head attack leaves NYPD cop Jack Murphy wounded, Jack takes his wife and kids on a much-needed vacation. Far up north, to a camp where families can still swim and take boats out on a lake, and pretend that the world isn’t going to hell. But the Can Heads are never far away, and nothing is quite what it seems in...