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Red Hands: A Novel Kindle Edition

4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 170 ratings

In bestselling author Christopher Golden's supernatural thriller Red Hands, sometimes a story is a warning. Sometimes the warning comes too late

When a mysterious and devastating bioweapon causes its victims to develop Red Hands, the touch of death, weird science expert Ben Walker is called to investigate.

A car plows through the crowd at a July 4th parade. The driver climbs out, sick and stumbling, reaching out…and everyone he touches drops dead within seconds. Maeve Sinclair watches in horror as people she loves begin to die and she knows she must take action. But in the aftermath of this terror, it’s Maeve who possesses that killing touch. Fleeing into the mountains, struggling with her own grief and confusion, Maeve faces the dawning realization that she will never be able to touch another human being again.

"Weird s**t expert” Ben Walker is surprised to get a call from Alena Boudreau, director of the newly restructured Global Science Research Coalition. There’s an upheaval in the organization and she needs to send someone she can trust to Jericho Falls. Whoever finds Maeve Sinclair first will unravel the mystery of her death touch, and many are willing to kill her for that secret.

Walker’s assignment is to get her off the mountain alive. But as Maeve searches for a hiding place, hunted and growing sicker by the moment, she begins to hear an insidious voice in her head, and the yearning, the need… the
hunger to touch another human being continues to grow. When Walker and Maeve meet at last, they will unravel a stunning legacy of death and betrayal, and a malignant secret as old as history.

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*TimeOut's *5 New Books You'll Want to Binge-Read This December"*

"Tautly written,
Red Hands ― the third in a series starring Walker ― excels not just because of its scare factor (which is high), but also its humane depiction of grief, isolation and fear, growing mistrust of government and even one’s own neighbors." ―The Washington Post

"The neck-whipping action and shifting points of view give the reader a wide-angle perspective...invoking maximum terror on every page...For fans of horror-thriller series like those by Jonathan Maberry and Mira Grant." ―
Booklist (Starred Review)

"
Red Hands is an absolutely riveting novel. I couldn't put it down. A thriller filled to the brim with equal parts terror and heart. Only Christopher Golden could weave together compelling characters and a gripping plot like this.” ―Mallory O'Meara, bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon

"Ben Walker is back in Christopher Golden's
Red Hands, a plague novel with a twist you won't see coming. This novel is part thriller, part horror, part science fiction -- in other words, as immediate and timely as this morning's paper. Except in Golden's world, the good guys give as good as they get. And the ride is a hell of a lot more fun." ―Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds

“This barnstorming thriller-with-a-twist starts with a whammy and doesn't let up until the last page. Clear your schedule - you won't be able to put this down once you start it. Reads like a Stephen King novel on speed.”
―Sarah Lotz, author of
The White Road and Day Four

"From page one,
Red Hands grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. The pacing is perfect. The action is chaotic, vivid, and incredibly satisfying. Full of intrigue, governmental scheming, and biological terror, this is one dark thriller I’ll be talking about―and recommending―for years to come." ―Rio Youers, author of Lola on Fire and The Forgotten Girl

"Ben Walker embarks on his most terrifying mission yet, when merely touching the ones closest to you will cause them to die. Filled with pain and fury, heartache and love,
Red Hands is a scorchingly potent thriller." ―Tim Lebbon, New York Times bestselling author of Eden

Red Hands is a brilliant, devious, and deeply disturbing thriller that blurs the line between the fantastic and our very real world. Highly recommended.” ―Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of V-Wars and Rage

“Christopher Golden has done it again! Red Hands is a full-throttle thriller that will leave you breathless. The opening chapter gave me nightmares, and by the time I reached the final page, I was too frightened to turn the lights out.” ―Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling author of Gwendy’s Magic Feather and The Girl on the Porch

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN (he/him) is the New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning author of Ararat, Snowblind, Dead Ringers, and Of Saints and Shadows, among many other novels. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. Golden is also the editor of such anthologies as Seize the Night, The New Dead, and Dark Cities, and the co-host of the popular podcast "Three Guys with Beards." He lives in Massachusetts.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B084M1QWY7
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press (December 8, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 8, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4901 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 315 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 170 ratings

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CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling author of such novels as Ararat, Red Hands, Snowblind, Wildwood Road, The Boys Are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, and Of Saints and Shadows. Golden co-created (with Mike Mignola) the comic book universe known as The Outerverse, featuring such characters as Baltimore, Joe Golem, and Lady Baltimore. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies Hex Life, Seize the Night, and The New Dead, among others, and has also written and co-written comic books, video games, screenplays, a BBC radio play, and the online animated series Ghosts of Albion (with Amber Benson). A frequent speaker at conferences, schools, and libraries, Golden is also co-host of the podcast Defenders Dialogue, and the founder of the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival. The winner of the Bram Stoker Award for best novel in 2017 for Ararat, Golden has been nominated ten times in eight different categories, winning twice. He has also been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award, sharing a win in 2020 with James A. Moore for the anthology The Twisted Book of Shadows.

Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His original novels have been published in more than fourteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com

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4.2 out of 5
170 global ratings
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An entertaining read
A lovely little family is enjoying the local Fourth of July Parade when the unthinkable happens.A crazed man goes on a murder spree and what's even crazier is that everyone he touches - dies. Like literally drops to the ground and dies.Maeve watches her father get run down by the crazed man's car and when he doesn't stop, she takes a metal bat and takes him out.Only, in that brief moment he hovered between life and death, she quickly becomes infected with whatever he had.The bioweapon known as the "Red Hands" has escaped the laboratory and is currently attached to Maeve.At first she's horrified by accidently causing death...but now she craves it.This was an interesting take on the "zombie" apocalypse.I really enjoyed getting Maeve's perspective for this one. The slow descent, the gentle rationings and the ultimate betrayal made it a compelling read.I was a bit annoyed that no one seemed to get the importance of basic biosafety protocols but I am a bit biased (I work in a lab...so these things are second nature to me).The plot itself felt a bit meandering but came together quite well in the end.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2020
Evil never dies! Ben Walker has seen so many of its terrible faces and knows it can never be destroyed.

The annual 4th of July celebration in Jericho Falls had always been a time to bring the small community together to remember the past and those who fought to establish and preserve the freedom that everyone cherishes. But the world turns upside down in a few heartbeats as terror is unleashed. What was a day to celebrate instantly becomes a day that could be the first day of the end...of everyone.

Once more, Walker is sent into a hell on earth...a hell that it's his duty to walk and retrieve what can only be looked on as death personified. And...he may not be the only one. Because evil WILL do whatever it needs done to survive.

Author Christopher Golden continues his journey as one of the leading horror writers with this, the 3rd entry in what I refer to as the WALKER CHRONICLES...for readily apparent reasons. Golden places his protagonist into those legends that have darkened and enthralled the history of humanity. A creature seemingly from hell itself found on a forgotten mountain side...horrors unleashed from the place it had been buried away from the world...and now evil that has walked the world for seemingly time untold. An evil that has been so pervasive in its reach that its predations have been documented by many...but only as fiction...for humanity may not be able to face the reality of its terror. Golden takes those ancient shadows that exist in the corner of the readers eye and pulls them out into the light of day and onto the pages before you. The author has given his fans a main character in Ben Walker who is cynical and perhaps fatalistic but one who puts everything... including self and family...behind his duty. Christopher never lets his characters stagnate, giving them a life of their own.

No word if this is the last of this series (though the story would suggest otherwise) ... I would hope, and I think his many readers would as well... that is not. But, if it were to be, Ben Walker went out with a bang. Here's hoping for more...because...

Evil Never Dies!!!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2022
The best of the trilogy. These feel like the more grounded (in some ways) supernatural/thriller version of mission impossible.

It started with Ararat, and here I am, still falling down the Christopher Golden rabbit hole. Havent hit a bad entry yet, so I've only built up steam.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021
Formulaic action book, down to the main character who has a troubled relationship with his son and troubled relationship at work because he once did a rogue good-guy mission for which everybody secretly respects him but orders are orders. Is he named Walker as a nod to The Walking Dead? Because this is basically a zombie reiteration disguised as a mission to find an infected woman before she is killed by scared mercenaries.

They should kill her because she's leaking oily black X-Files goo all over a forest. (Is that why her last name is Sinclair?) You won't mind if she is killed. Maeve doesn't elicit much sympathy. Even though she holds some vague public health job, she has a habit of making ageist comments about other women --old hag, leathery, old doll-- both before and after she's infected. Jerk.

The inside flap would suggest there's something very allegorical about the virus ("explores the darkest side of human touch") which would keep it in line with the best of the zombie genre, but there's nothing in the book itself that explores any themes about human touch or human hands other than the one lone scientist (a David type) using HIS hands to fight the Goliath that is teams and teams of Black Ops types. You know, the kind of thing that is in every SyFy movie about viruses escaping from a secret quasi-military lab. You've seen and read this before, probably better versions to boot.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2021
This is the third novel featuring Ben Walker and might be the best one yet. Other reviewers have done a great job summarizing the plot. Something I appreciate about this book, as well as the others in this series, is how real the story feels. The reader experiences the heartbreak and pain, as well as joy and relief, that the characters go through. The author is truly a master of the craft and takes the reader on one hell of a ride from start to finish. Very, very well done.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2022
Man refuses to leave well enough alone. No respect for what they do not understand. Evil, man-made or otherwise is not a took to be utilized in quest for domination. One upmanship at the expense of humanity is he backbone of chaos.
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