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Bryan Smith

Merciless Kindle Edition

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2020 Splatterpunk Award nominee for best novel

Psycho newlyweds Grant and Lindsey Weatherby are true crime junkies with a thirst to know what it feels like to kill for real. Young, prosperous, and good-looking, they are seen by friends and family as the perfect couple. No one sees the dark side to their love. After their wedding, they embark on a trip across the country. As their honeymoon gift to each other, they plan to abduct, torture, and kill a stranger. But what was planned as a controlled one-time event soon explodes into a spiraling orgy of bloody, nightmarish violence and depravity.

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October 9, 2019
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07YYGLP2K
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grindhouse Press (October 9, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 9, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3218 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1941918549
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #360,867 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #11,049 in Horror (Kindle Store)
- #19,432 in Horror Literature & Fiction

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Bryan Smith

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Bryan Smith is the Splatterpunk Award-winning author of more than thirty horror and crime novels and novellas, including 68 Kill, the cult classic Depraved and its sequels, The Killing Kind, Slowly We Rot, The Freakshow, and many more. Bestselling horror author Brian Keene called Slowly We Rot, "The best zombie novel I've ever read." 68 Kill was adapted into a motion picture directed by Trent Haaga and starring Matthew Gray Gubler of the long-running CBS series Criminal Minds. 68 Kill won the Midnighters Award at the SXSW film festival in 2017 and was released to wide acclaim, including positive reviews in The New York Times and Bloody Disgusting. Bryan also co-scripted an original Harley Quinn story for the House of Horrors anthology from DC Comics. In 2019, he won a Splatterpunk Award under the best novella category for Kill For Satan! His primary publisher as of 2018 is Grindhouse Press.

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Tracy Robinson

Great action, odd ending

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2019

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This will not be a rant-y two star review. So if that’s what you’re here for, my apologies.

The book sucked me in. Action starts immediately and this couple is messed up.Love that the women in this book are kick-ass rather than the men running the show.

This is extreme horror so CW for lots of different things. IExtreme doesn’t bother me. That’s not my issue with the book at all. And Smith can definitely turn a phrase.

Some of the scenes felt a bit drawn out and the back story for at least one of the side characters was clunky and rushed. Which is okay - it’s a short book, so there’s not a lot of time for that. The ending though, I kind of see what Smith was going for and it does connect to something at the beginning of the book but I was left like “COME ON - that’s it?” It really broke my experience.

Will I read more from this author? Absolutely.

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Travis Davis

A truly apt title!

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2019

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Bryan Smith is without a doubt one of horror’s unsung heroes. The man is just an immense talent and always writes an
extremely entertaining story.

Wow this book is truly like its title suggests, it’s merciless. This book grabs you by the throat and sends you hurtling to Hell at breakneck speed.

Depravity and bleakness are on full display here. Horrible people do horrible things, good people do reprehensible things and nothing goes as planned for anyone.

Bad and brutal things happen to people you want AND to people that you don’t want. That’s why Smith excels at his job, no one is spared from the carnage!

This book has some hefty violence so timid readers beware because this book is mean spirited and highly recommended to fans of horror that like their stories merciless! Highly recommended!

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Russell Coy

Brace yourself

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2019

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Brace yourself. MERCILESS doesn't flinch, hesitate, or look away. It's a case of a experienced writer weaponizing his considerable skills.
It doesn't allow you the reprieve of underdeveloped characters. These people breathe, think, and feel everything done to them.
There's no sloppy prose to distract you from the horrors that unfold. The writing is clear and precise in a way that forces you to see the atrocities committed in full detail.
MERCILESS is a black hole of pain and depravity that could only have been created by a true master of horror.
Recommended, but make no mistake. It's gonna hurt.

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M.Wilshin

Bloody, barbaric & bare bones

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2020

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Gruesome AF but I could not pull away. Great pacing for a story where you get the distinct feeling that everyone is doomed early on.
The plot is oh-so-simple but it's not so simplistic. Bad people doing bad things with justifications that only they can understand.

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Jamie La Chance

Bryan Smith continues to thrill and satisfy the way Dick Laymon used to do!

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2020

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Newlyweds on a killing spree... but surprises abound in this shocking tale of murder and mayhem. Rarely do I yell out loud at perceived pain and images while reading, but Smith consistently causes me to do it! From the first sentence to the last, Smith shows he is a master of terror with few peers today!

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Colum Mcknight

One of Smith's most vicious reads

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019

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Absolutely one of the best paced, and relentless stories by Bryan Smith. All of the characters are just short of over-the-top, and immediately detestable and (strangely) likeable, at the same time.

The overall feel of the novel is gritty, nasty, and pulpy, which is exactly what I wanted in a book with this title - which, by the way, the story absolutely lives up to in spades.

This is, hands down, one of Smith's most vicious reads. I loved every page.

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GaborH.

Quick and brutal

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2019

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A young couple is planning to kill a random person just for the hell of it. But the wife acts too soon and what at first seems a "simple" kidnap-torture-killing, suddenly turns into more chaotic violence than both of them imagined.
A well written, fast paced, relatively short book. There is no quarter given, this book is full of explicit brutality and gore without any humor to alleviate the shock of the reader.

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J. Rob

Unrelenting intensity!

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2021

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From the opening page until the final page... this novel is unpredictable and brutal. What a rollercoaster! Bryan Smith fills the hole that Richard Laymon left when he passed away.

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