'The maniacal pecking of a sewing machine needle stitches. A well-manicured masculine foot works the pedal. A shiny slab of white latex, stained with moist dried blood, is draped over a wooden table. Spot lit by an emaciated man hidden in his own shadow. This is Sqweegel. A Level 25 serial killer. Most lethal on the spectrum. Repairing a tear on his home-sewn body condom. His murder suit...' Dark Returns (Chapter 1)
From the mind of Anthony E. Zuiker, Creator of the CSI franchise, comes Level 26, the first ever interactive digi-novel.
Read, watch, log-in, and interact! Level 26 breaks all boundaries of traditional publishing by combining motion picture quality film and an interactive community website with a thriller novel.
Level26.com launches July 23 with new content posted every day, profile pages, community videos, behind the scenes footage, and updates from Anthony E. Zuiker.
The first novel in the Level 26 series, Dark Origins, goes on sale August 31, 2009.
If the world knew anything about Sqweegel, we'd never leave the house. Not that staying inside would make us safe . . . The only people, who have ever heard that awful name, or seen the crudely shot crime scene videos produced by the killer himself, are the highly secret Special Circumstances unit at the FBI. A psychopath who has shot, raped, maimed, poisoned, burned, strangled, and tortured more than thirty-five people in six countries over a span of twenty-three years, Sqweegel's violent fantasies are more than familiar to the few desolate souls who've lasted longer than six months in Special Circs.
The only person who has ever come close to catching him is Steve Dark, and he's left the business. After what happened to Dark's family, few blame him.
After a period of quiet, Sqweegel's made himself known again. And this time, his victim brings a hailstorm of trouble down on Special Circs, because she's got connections to the very highest corridors of power. The man in charge wants results, and he's prepared to raise the stakes for the men and women who've failed so many times before. With their jobs – and their lives – on the line, the call goes out: Find Steve Dark and bring him back into the fold.
He's the only hope they've got.
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