The Beetle: A Mystery
- ISBN-10
- 0141038799
- ISBN-13
- 9780141038797
- Series
- The Beetle
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-10-02
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Richard Marsh
Description
It changes its shape at will. It compels others to do its bidding. It inspires terror in all who look on it � Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of Westminster, but when �The Beetle� arrives from Egypt to hunt him down, the dark and gruesome secret that haunts him is dragged into the light. Bent on revenge for a crime committed against the disciples of Isis, the Beetle terrorizes its victims and will stop at nothing until it has satisfaction. Six people�s worlds are turned upside down by murder, mesmerism and human sacrifice as they struggle to save their sanity and above all, their lives.
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