Never let a crisis go to waste. Carpe jugulum.
That’s the credo of haunted but ambitious New York businessman Nathan Serebus, a man content to consider himself anything but a hero. His motto will be put to the test, though, when a trip to San Francisco lands him and his attorney Albin Conrad in the middle of a multiple-target terrorist attack.
Worse, the strikes are a cover for the extremists' true purpose: to release a contagion that transforms people into savage, unthinking cannibals.
As the cannibals turn on civilians and terrorists alike, and San Francisco descends into monstrous violence, Nathan and his friends fight with the brutality and ferocity of wolves to survive—and not only against the infected flesh-eaters.
Despite Nathan's tenacity, the terrorist mastermind Cheel takes him and his people hostage. But Nathan has always thrived on chaos. As he matches wits with Cheel—a man whose goals may be closer to Nathan’s than he’d like to believe—he finds himself left with a decision: fight his demons or embrace them?
His choice will have grave consequences—for him and for all civilization.
Behold Darkness is the first book of LC Champlin’s gritty Wolves of the Apocalypse series.