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Esquire Exclusive Excerpt

Posted on April 10, 2013 by ben

The May issue of Esquire features an excerpt — culled from the first 200 pages of Red Moon — called “The Infected.” You can read it online or listen to the audiobook version here.

"Benjamin Percy is one of the most gifted and versatile writers to appear in American publishing in years...His prose has the masculine power of Ernest Hemingway's, but also the sensibilities and compassion of Eudora Welty. His writing is like a meeting of Shakespeare and rock 'n' roll. Benjamin Percy knows how to keep it in E-major, and what a ride it is."

James Lee Burke, bestselling author of Feast Day of Fools, Heaven's Prisoners, and Neon Rain.

Praise

Written in vivid, often lyrical prose, but with exhilarating comic-book energy, THE DARK NET is a megawatt defibrillator to the reader’s heart. Quirky but very human characters confront an explosive emergence of the supernatural into our world, in this imaginative, spooky, swiftly paced tale threaded through with dark humor.

Dean Koontz

Benjamin Percy is one of the most gifted and versatile writers to appear in American publishing in years. His degree of craft and natural talent are extraordinary; his ear for language is absolutely perfect. His prose has the masculine power of Ernest Hemingway’s, but also the sensibilities and compassion of Eudora Welty. His writing is like a meeting of Shakespeare and rock ‘n’ roll. Benjamin Percy knows how to keep it in E-major, and what a ride it is.

James Lee Burke, bestselling author, Feast Day of Fools, Heaven's Prisonersand Neon Rain

The Wilding is an urgent and haunting look at the darker side of our nature and at our often futile attempts to control and manage the natural world.

Kansas City Star

This post-apocalytpic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark passage is a thrill ride through a nightmare America. Gorgeous and haunting and full of heart, like some wonderful offspring of The Hobbit, The Road, and Stephen King’s Dark Towers series.

James Frey, New York Times-bestselling author of Endgame and A Million Little Pieces

Benjamin Percy’s The Wilding is a tour de force meditation and treatise on the nature of violence, the violence of nature, man in the wild, and the wild in man—cleverly disguised as a page-turning adventure. Not just a “must” read, but a need read, this book is timely, terrifying, terrific.

Antonya Nelson, author, In the LandMen and Female Trouble

Benjamin Percy’s debut novel, The Wilding, reaches out and mauls you like a raging grizzly bear.

Ames Tribune

A Library Media Connection ‘Best of the Best’ for 2009

If it’s a thriller you’re after, The Wilding doesn’t disappoint, taking a story as old as the woods and fashioning it into something a bit sleeker and more psychological — a bit closer to where we live.

Los Angeles Times

Refresh, Refresh is a completely impressive collection of short fiction by one of our most accomplished younger writers. Benjamin Percy moves instinctively toward the molten center of contemporary writing, the place where genre fiction, in this case horror, overflows its boundaries and becomes something dark and grand and percipient. These stories contain a brutal power and are radiant with pain — only a writer of surpassing honesty and directness could lead us here. Ben Percy’s feet are firmly… Read more

Peter Straub, New York Times-bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning Author, In the Night Room, Lost Boy, Lost Girl, Ghost Storyand Koko

Named by the American Library Association (ALA) as a A Great Graphic Novel for Teens

“Take one part dystopia, one part sci-fi, two parts apocalypse, then ride them roughshod through a bleak and bloody western, and it still wouldn’t get close to what Ben Percy does here, which is blow open the core of humanity’s dark heart.” -Marlon James, Booker Prize award-winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Comet Cycle - James

Percy’s novel perfectly captures our ambiguous attitudes toward the natural world, the tensions between rural and urban, the way that untamed wildness carries both grace and terror.

High Country News

The Wilding wraps its arms around some big themes: the vanishing wilderness, a dissolving marriage, and the shell-shocked re-adjustment to domestic life after combat. It’s a lot to pack into 250 pages, but Percy manages to do it with remarkable ease.

Barnes and Noble

Listed as one of the Top 100 Books of the Year by the Kansas City Star

Chosen as “Book of the Week” at iBooks (10/27/10-11/2/10)

Listed as one of the Top Ten Books of 2010 by New West Magazine

Red Moon is a serious, politically symbolic novel – a literary novel about lycanthropes. If George Orwell had imagined a future where the werewolf population had grown to the degree that they were colonized and drugged, this terrifying novel might be it.

John Irving, bestselling author, Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meanyand The World According to Garp

Chosen by the Powells Bookstore chain for their “Indiespensible” Books Subscription Club

The Wilding emerges as creative, unique and deeply thought-provoking. More so, it speaks of an author with many more tricks up his sleeve.

Bookpage

Chosen as one of “The Six Best Books in the West of 2010” – New West Books & Writers

Named by Young Adult Library Services Association (YALS) as a Great Graphic Novel

…his writing is as natural, dark, and deep as the woods he writes about. At 31, Percy is as promising a writer as anyone on a certain New York magazine’s list of promising writers under 40.

The Boston Globe

..powerfully written first novel……he delineates his characters with a knife-sharp psychological edge.

National Public Radio

The Young Adult Round Table (YART) of the Texas Library Association (TLA) named Refresh Refresh a A Texas Maverick Graphic Novel.

Benjamin Percy’s THE DARK NET channels the spirit of your favorite sprawling and epic, 1980’s horror/thriller novels into a tightly paced, nasty, unrelenting 21st century nightmare. An addictive and frightening read.

Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock

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