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CREEPERS starts out so innocently -- a pack of creepers (they prefer to be called "urban explorers") who like to poke through abandoned buildings plan on taking a look through the old Paragon Hotel before it is ripped down. The creepers will be accompanied by Balenger, who says he's a reporter writing about trendy sports. Hour by hour the suspense and the chills build. (The book is divided into eight sections for each hour the creepers are inside.) At first the action comes from the sort of challenges all creepers face -- feral animals, staircases pulling free, rotting floors falling out from under their feet. But Balenger, who has an ulterior motive and a gun that the others don't suspect, knows that the Paragon has been host to many darker things. The owner liked to spy on people from peepholes he'd built into the walls, keeping a diary of the infidelities, suicides, and murders he witnessed. Eventually he had gotten tired of the game and stopped running the building as a hotel, dismissing all but a few key staff. Even so, one night something scared him into leaving his beloved building, into facing his agoraphobia by running onto the beach outside -- and blowing off the top of his head with a shotgun. The witching hour sees the creepers' first big problem; one of their own is injured badly in a fall. They start to abandon the project and the hotel -- until someone, in the darkness below, between them and the door, starts whistling Moon River. This is when the real gore begins, a violent, bloody cat and mouse game that will rage without flagging until 4am, plot twist after plot twist piled on the dwindling survivors. CREEPERS delivers thrills and action galore and is recommended for anyone who likes a good horror/thriller. For anyone who thinks that creeping itself sounds like good fun (minus all the murders), references are provided on various urban exploring websites.
Reviewed by Linnea Dodson, January 2006
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