In a divided, demoralized America overwhelmed with prejudice and violence, the shapeshifting monster Khurxoc will never go hungry: He feeds not on flesh or blood but on the dark psychic energy of pathological hate, his ferocious bite draining it from the brains of criminals and bigots and transforming them into empathic human beings. When actress Ashleigh Page is abducted from a New York City nightclub, the FBI targets an enemy from her parents' criminal past, but Detective Mike Juhl, commander of the NYPD's Khurxoc Task Force, believes the kidnapping is politically motivated, and Khurxoc is involved. The ransom? Something that has fallen into the creature's possession -- "The Provenance," an asset so dangerous, it could ignite a racial holy war that turns the government of America into a brutal White Nationalist regime.As a tense waiting game begins for the kidnappers' demands, the FBI and NYPD race to find Ashleigh while Khurxoc uses his ability to adopt multiple identities in an attempt to rescue her and head off America's destruction by zealots eager to act, with or without The Provenance.But Khurxoc's human identity, Jonathan Abbott -- a political fugitive on the run from a government frame-up -- is locked in a grim psychological battle to thwart his violent alter ego from taking control of him, a battle he cannot afford to lose without losing everything he holds dear. Ashleigh, above all.And who else is Khurxoc? Military contractor Jason Stark? Sketchy PI Luther Grissom? Ashleigh's own father? Or is he Detective Juhl himself? Or is he all of them?Khurxoc is a rudely entertaining, no-holds-barred crime thriller with paranormal overtones and packed with double-, triple-, and quadruple-crosses that will keep readers guessing until, literally, the last line.(Contains sexual situations, graphic violence, and an utter disregard for tapping into the cultural zeitgeist.

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