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CREEPERS
by David Morrell
Headline, September 2005
352 pages
18.99GBP
ISBN: 0755327462


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Urban explorers are people who illegally enter abandoned hotels, offices, tunnels and other buildings. These buildings have often been left pristine from the time they were abandoned, giving the 'creepers', as they are known, a real insight into the past.

One group of creepers ventures into the Paragon, a New Jersey hotel built by a reclusive and strange millionaire. They are expecting an interesting evening, roaming the huge building, but they certainly do not expect the death, destruction and hidden secrets that are awaiting them inside. Will they escape from the Paragon with their lives?

CREEPERS is a fantastic thriller. Morrell ratchets up the pace and tension from the very beginning of the novel and he never lets go. The atmosphere of doom and foreboding pervades the entirety of the text, as the storm beats down on the creepers in the near-darkness. The plot develops rapidly, with various twists and turns. I had an idea in my mind of how the story was going to play out, but Morrell succeeded in tricking me entirely.

In his note to the readers at the end, Morrell outlines his own background in urban exploring and it is clear that he has done a large amount of research into the subject. CREEPERS feels real and sharp, and there is no doubt that it would make an excellent movie. If it is necessary to pick faults, then it could be argued that some of the plot is slightly unrealistic or that we do not learn enough about the characters, but this would be a case of nit-picking simply for nit-picking's sake.

CREEPERS is a pure thriller, running on adrenaline, and once the reader picks it up, they will find it very, very hard indeed to put it back down. I read it in two sittings and loved every minute of it.

Reviewed by Luke Croll, December 2005

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