Bloodroot Hardback - 2009

de Loehfelm, Bill

The brilliantly ambitious thriller-frightening, twisted, and filledwith secrets and heartbreak-from the author of Fresh Kills.

Kevin Curran wants to unite his family, but he's ready togive up on his younger brother, Danny-three yearslost to heroin addiction and hard, desperate livingon the streets of New York. When Danny shows up on Kevin'sStaten Island doorstep, looking clean, fit, and prosperous,Kevin can't help but be overjoyed that his brother has escapedhis past life. But at what price? Not even Kevin's worst nightmarescould have prepared him for the horrors he'll discoverabout his brother's dark history.

After a brief reunion, Danny offers Kevin a role in an underworldplot revolving around the Bloodroot Children's Hospital,an abandoned juvenile asylum with a nefarious past. Hopingto rescue Danny from his criminal life after years ago failing tosave him from his addiction, Kevin accepts.

While Danny's plan unfolds, Kevin is drawn into a world ofmurder, Mafia hit men and dangerous espionage. The halls ofBloodroot reveal one horrifying secret after another: about thebuilding's history, about Danny's life of addiction and crime,and about the true roots of the Curran family. At the end of themaze of monsters, the brothers make a discovery so horrific itmay force them to destroy each other.