The Hungry Dark by Joseph Nassise

Author:Joseph Nassise [Nassise, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harbinger Books

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One minute Duncan was sleeping peacefully, the next he bolted awake as screams of fear and pain exploded throughout the room.

He snatched at his weapon and lurched to his feet, only to stare in horror at the wave of demons that were flooding across the room in his direction, killing as they came. A half-dozen people had already fallen prey to the savage creatures and even as he watched another young woman collapsed to the floor beneath the weight of the demon that had just collided with her. Seconds later the woman’s blood spilled across the floor as the demon tore out her throat with its teeth.

Then Duncan had no more time to look as the first of the oncoming wave reached him and he found himself fighting for his life amidst a swirling dervish of claws and teeth, all intent on ripping the life from his form. For the next several minutes all he could think about was survival.

He did his best to keep his back to the wall, preventing any of the creatures from come up from behind. He caught occasional glimpses of the others as they fought their own battles. Once he heard Cade calling out for his men to form up on him, but he was unable to move or even respond to the summons, for even the lack of focus on his enemy for even the few seconds it would have taken him to do so was all that would have been needed for the creatures to make short shrift of him. He hacked and slashed and did his best to stay on his feet and stay alive.

Duncan had just finished dispatching a large protean demon directly in front of him when something slammed into him from the side with all the force of an NFL linebacker. The impact not only sent his sword flying from his hands but knocked him off his feet. As he toppled forward he frantically twisted about, determined not to end up with his arms pinned beneath him and an enemy on his back.

He hit the ground, slamming the back of his head into the stone beneath hard enough to make his ears ring, but the sight of the insectoid demon now perched on his chest, the same one they’d seen on the rooftop earlier, sent a wave of horror coursing through his system. The accompanying adrenaline that followed in its wake kept him from graying out.

Thank heaven for that, too, for no sooner had they hit the ground that the demon went for his throat!

As it thrust its snout toward him, jaws gaping, Duncan jammed his left forearm under its chin and against the creature’s neck, holding it back as he groped for the knife on his belt with his right. He fumbled with it for a second and then pulled it free, bringing it up and around in a wide swing designed to sink the six-inch blade deep into the demon’s torso, but it skipped off the thing’s hide as if it were made of solid steel.

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