Pig Island

The acclaimed author of _The Devil of Nanking_ returns with a riveting,

disturbing thriller of religious fanatics, hoax debunkers, and the dark side

of belief. Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes,

but when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish

island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. On the trail of a strange

creature caught briefly on film, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes

crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pigs’

skulls to infiltrate the territory of the groups’ isolated founder, Malachi

Dove. Their confrontation, and its violent aftermath, is so catastrophic that

it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil—and whether he might be

responsible for the heinous crime about to unfold. Startling and

uncompromising, _Pig Island_ confirms Mo Hayder as one of the most talented,

compelling thriller writers now working.