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"The disintegration of a man, living in a nightmare within a nightmare. Evocative and haunting." ALAN GRANT, bestselling author and prolific comic writer for Batman and 2000AD."D. A. Butcher's Eyes of Sleeping Children resonates deeply with our present moment. It is at once a pulse-pounding psychological thriller and a meditation on family and love and resilience. Butcher has delivered an impressive debut. You won't put it down!" ADAM BRADLEY, co-author of New York Times bestseller, One Day It'll All Make Sense.THE NOVEL: AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER. A MISSING CHILD. A MAN WHO WOULD KILL FOR HIS FAMILY.Louis Lockhart and family take shelter from the worst storm to ever hit Kansas - The Beast of Black Sunday. Jesse pleads with his father to not let the Sandman get him. That night, Jesse vanishes from their home. A grief-stricken Bonnie, believes the Sandman has taken Jesse to protect him from the end of the world. Louis searches tirelessly for their missing son, while insidious things creep back from his past and threaten to tear his family to pieces.Louis must become the man he thought he left behind to save his family, but Bonnie's Sandman creeps ever closer...A violent, tragic, heart-breaking tale of revenge and redemption that will keep you guessing 'til the end. Not for the feint of heart.THE AUTHOR: Dylan Alfredo Giovanni Butcher is half British, half Italian and grew up in London, England. He worked as a comic and movie journalist for three years, voluntarily, to refine his writing skills. He has won writing competitions for his short-stories and poetry, and been shortlisted for others, in Writing Magazine and Writer's Forum. He recently had a short-story placed in an anthology. He now lives in the Midlands with his wife and three children. Dylan is studying towards his Master's Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing with the Open University, while writing fiction and self-publishing his work. Eyes of Sleeping Children is his debut novel.