“Echoes” by Marc Everitt is published
Exciting historical fiction novel about the Franklin Expedition.
- (1888PressRelease) May 27, 2023 - ASIN #B0C51V4VSB
About the Book:
Chester Bryers knows a secret. He has kept it for decades but now, as he nears his final days, he is finally telling his tale. A tale of what really happened to the lost Franklin Expedition. A tale of cold vengeance, long planned and of the adventurer George Greener who discovered a terrible truth.
It is a truth that must not be known and by breaking his long silence Bryers’ life may be coming to a swifter and more violent end than he imagined; because some secrets must be kept, and The Thin man is watching.
About the Author:
Marc Everitt has written and published 11 books including two standalone science fiction novels, a haunted house book, a race against time contagion thriller, two short stories, the space opera trilogy ‘Days of Entropy’, and two old-fashioned murder mysteries in the Sebastian Peregrine series. Most of these stories are also available as e-books and audiobooks. Marc lives in Wiltshire, England with his wife, three children, two dogs and a bossy cat. Marc has a degree in English Literature & Philosophy from the University of Hertfordshire and is a Limited Company director in financial services.
Excerpt from the book:
“Charles Hamilton Osmer fought his way across Hell, one step at a time. He had been walking forever but knew that he had so far yet to go; in fact, he was unlikely to ever reach his destination, but what else was there to do? His only other option was to stop walking, lie down in the snow and wait for death. That would not be long, he was sure. If not from the cold, perhaps from the hunger in his belly or if not that, then maybe from the beasts that hunted him.
He got glimpses of them behind the drifts of snow every now and again. Sometimes he saw them clearly, but he could not be sure he was not experiencing a nightmare. Such monsters could not be real, surely? Bears like he had seen at London Zoo but far larger and all white to boot. Nothing like it could really exist in God’s own Earth, or at least he hoped as much.
One more foot forward, that was all he had to focus on. Just keep moving. So many of his fellows had stopped to rest never to get up and move again. The cold did that to you, he knew. It sapped your will to live, took your strength and left you to die. There were twelve of them in his party, itself a smaller group which had broken away from the main, but now there was only him.
One foot in front of another, keep on moving forward. No matter how slowly and no matter how pointless it might appear. His hate drove him onwards. More than his desire to keep on living, his enmity towards those that had done this to him prevented him from taking the easy option. Stopped him from just lying down in the snow and letting it wash over him to end his pain. No, he reminded himself, don’t think about the pain. It comes back harder and more insistent if you let it. Ignore it and think about the only thing that is important, putting one foot in front of another.
Was that something in the distance? His eyes were almost snow blind from the glare and he had imagined seeing things on more than one occasion, but this seemed different. If he were to imagine something, then he supposed it would be something he understood, but what he was perhaps seeing at the very edge of his vision was like nothing he knew. Was it a person? No, too large and the wrong shape.
One foot in front of the other, just keep moving. Yes, that was definitely something. A house? No, it couldn’t be. Houses weren’t shaped like that. Keep on walking, just keep moving. He finally fell to his knees as he saw people coming out of the strange-looking structure. People speaking a language he did not understand and walking towards him cautiously. All of his strength seemed to have been spent and he fell forward into the snow. Charles Hamilton Osmer did not feel it when they lay their hands on him and carried him away.”
“Echoes” by Marc Everitt is available in hardback from Amazon at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Echoes-Marc-Everitt/dp/B0C51PCVBH
This novel is available to order in paperback format at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Echoes-Marc-Everitt/dp/B0C51V4VSB
“Echoes” can also be downloaded in e-book format at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Echoes-Marc-Everitt-ebook/dp/B0C52BB27F
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