The Broken Souls or The Garden of Vipers (USA)
It looked like an abattoir when Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus found the mutilated body of the young journalist. What looks like the work of a lone madman spreads tentacles that wrap themselves round all sorts of strange areas, including the city's most unlikely suspects: the wealthy family whose philanthropy has made them famous and influential. Behind their money and smiles is a family divided by hatred, a family whose strange and horrific past is about to engulf everyone around them – including Ryder.
- Publisher: E.P.Dutton; 334 pp. ISBN 0-525-94952-6 (hardcover).
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