mark

a novel

De: Adam Darby

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A modern man. A prehistoric nightmare. How much of your soul can you lose before you stop being human?

Mark thought he knew what danger looked like, but nothing prepared him for the silent green hell of the jungle. Now, he is no longer a man with a past; he is a slave to a prehistoric tribe that rules with wooden spears and grunts that carry the weight of a thousand years.

Confined to a rotting hut at the edge of a village each night, Mark’s only anchor to reality is "Splinter"—a silent, lipless guard with black eyes who watches him with the patient intensity of a predator. To keep from slipping into the abyss of isolation, Mark clings to jokes about the world he left behind, imagining himself as a character in a movie just to stay sane. But as the shadows of the jungle begin to burrow deep into his mind, he realizes he isn't just a captive of the tribe—he is being swallowed by the wilderness itself.

In this visceral and haunting psychological survival thriller, Adam Darby explores the terrifying thinness of civilization and the primal darkness that waits when you are truly, irrevocably alone.

For fans of the dark realism in The Road and the atmospheric tension of Heart of Darkness, mark is a brutal character study of survival at any cost.