RESURRECTION EXPRESS

A page-turning debut thriller that opens with an adrenaline-driven heist and races right through to a near-miss with Armageddon.

This story begins like a cybercrime version of the classic film The Getaway and it accelerates into a literary version of a Michael Bay film, with our hero on a collision course with a man-made Armageddon. Meet Elroy Coffin. He's a 21st Century high-tech thief with deadly hands. Trained from his youth to be the best there is at what he does. There is no code he can't break, nothing he can't hack, no safe he can't crack. But even the best can fall. Sold up the river after a job by a depraved Texas mob boss, Coffin has spent the past two years incarcerated in a maximum security hellhole, driven to near-madness by the death of his beloved wife. When a mysterious "concerned citizen" arrives at the prison one morning with evidence that Coffin's wife is still alive, and offers him the chance to find her in return for cracking the most deadly security system ever designed, Coffin knows something big is going down. Back on the street and relentlessly hunted by the same man who left him to rot in jail, Coffin is drawn into a breakneck maelstrom of action, betrayal and intrigue that will test the limits of his skills. The job goes bad in a major way, and puts him in the center of an armed assault robbery that turns into a death-defying escape through the criminal underworld. At the end of the chase, Coffin is convinced that he can find his long-lost love. But what he doesn't know is that the men who hired him are running the deadliest game of all time an endgame that could spell the death of billions, altering the very course of human history. And Elroy Coffin holds the key to it all. Stephen Romano is a screenwriter and first-time novelist. His projects include the Emmy Award-winning Showtime series MASTERS OF HORROR, and he co-authored the supernatural suspense novel BLACK LIGHT (forthcoming from Mulholland/Little Brown), written in collaboration with Hollywood screenwriters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dustan. Offering non-stop thrills and brilliant and tortured hero, RESURRECTION EXPRESS builds through a series of startling reversals, finally exploding in an epic climax that is one of the best extended action scenes I've ever read. Strap yourself in. There's never been a book quite like RESURRECTION EXPRESS.