Read the Prologue for My Thriller 'The Final Boy'
The pitch for my thriller novel, The Final Boy , recently won Third Place in a contest hosted by the London Writers' Salon (you can read it here ). And now, you can read the opening pages below. If you like what you read, feel free to reach out as I am seeking beta readers. FIRST... There was the screaming. He could hear it from the courtyard, a young woman crying for help inside one of the apartments, followed by the sound of harsh strings of a violin, loud enough to reverberate off the walls of the enclosure. No neighbors seemed to have been stirred by the noise. He made his way over to the apartment in the northwest corner, unit 103, and caught a flickering of light in the windows. The piercing orchestration intensified as he opened the screen door, its hinges shrieking in unison with the cries of the woman who appeared to be in peril. Once he stepped inside, he saw the large glowing display of an ultra-high-definition television that was mounted to the wall, ...