" Then she opened her mouth to scream—and
recognised me. It was what I’d been waiting for. She froze. She looked into my
eyes. She said, “It’s you.”. Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you’d
never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for you—and a diet with
lots of animal protein. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and
violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species.
Although he is physically healthy, Jake is deeply distraught and lonely. Jake’s
depression has carried him to the point where he is actually contemplating
suicide—even if it means terminating a legend thousands of years old. It would
seem to be easy enough for him to end everything. But for very different
reasons there are two dangerous groups pursuing him who will stop at nothing to
keep him alive. Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf
legend—mesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a
werewolf for the twenty-first century—a man whose deeds can only be described
as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human. One of the most
original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years.”
