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Kit Burgoyne

Biography

Kit Burgoyne

Kit Burgoyne is the horror fiction pen name of Ned Beauman, who was named one of Granta’s Twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and is the author of BOXER, BEETLE (winner of the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction); THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award); GLOW; MADNESS IS BETTER THAN DEFEAT; and VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER (winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award). He has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the London Review of Books and Esquire. He lives in London. THE CAPTIVE is his first novel as Kit Burgoyne.

Kit Burgoyne

Books by Kit Burgoyne

The Captive
by Kit Burgoyne - Fiction, Horror, Supernatural Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

For months, Luke and his underground revolutionary group have been planning their biggest operation yet: kidnapping 23-year-old Adeline Woolsaw. They want to expose the Woolsaw Group, the source of Adeline’s parents’ enormous wealth. But the revolutionaries get a shock when they bundle Adeline into their van. She’s about to go into labor. And she may not object to being kidnapped, if it allows her and the baby to escape her despotic parents. It quickly becomes apparent that this is no ordinary child. Luke discovers that Adeline’s parents engineered the pregnancy as part of a dark bargain with an ancient evil of nearly limitless power. Now the Woolsaws and their henchmen will stop at nothing to get the infant back, so they can establish an infernal new kingdom on Earth with their grandchild on the throne.