Dreaming Deep

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By the Winner of two Readers’ Choice Awards from The House of Crime & Mystery...

The Story
The hardworking men and women at the Port of Long Beach, California have no idea what’s waiting for them in the deep water. Tugboat Captain Ed Angelus discovers the horror first in a death match aboard the Lady Bulldog, a high-tech z-drive vessel. But when the Coast Guard and Homeland Security arrive on the scene, there’s no trace, and Ed is declared delusional and unfit for duty. A few months later Ed’s former crewmen dredge up something chilling from the depths of Alamitos Bay—something horrific and possibly paranormal. Soon, the truth turns into ugly lies by authorities unwittingly manipulated by a dirty bureaucrat masterminding the investigation. Overnight, Ed finds himself a public enemy at the center of extraterrestrial black ops—outrunning the law until he can warn the world.

Reviewers are saying...

“With characters you care about and unpredictable twists aplenty, Dreaming Deep is so fun, fast-moving and compelling that I read this start-to-finish in a packed subway car in New York City, at rush hour, stuck in a tunnel—and didn’t even notice how uncomfortable I must’ve been—I was dreaming too deep. Anonymous-9 writes with such a skilled mix of realistic detail and poetic atmosphere that the uncanny events seem to unfold before your eyes, leaving you more witness than reader. There’s no way you won’t enjoy it.”
—Erik T. Johnson, author of The Chapman Delirium and winner of Written Backwards’ DRAWA Voice Award

"Dreaming Deep is full of love and terror in equal measure... a powerful opening salvo in what promises to be a dynamite series. H.P. Lovecraft would have approved."
—Charles Gramlich, author of In the Language of Scorpions

"Lovecraftian fiction does not normally mesh well with crime—cold logic and straight facts explode on contact with the ineffable, the impossible, and the tentacular. But this time, it's an explosion you can enjoy."
—Nick Mamatas, Bram Stoker Award nominee and author of Move Under Ground and The Nickronomicon

"It left me thinking about Kafka’s Gregor Samsa and The X-Files—a tantalizing mix."
—S.W. Lauden, BadCitizenCorporation blogspot

"Whether you wish to acknowledge it or not; we live in a world inhabited, run, choreographed and enforced by a real live Cthulhu... It knows no sex, no state of origin and no political party. It is a leviathan... created by our own government out of an ignorance of ideas. This book is not only entertaining but it is thought provoking and brave... something literature and our culture have sorely missed. Buy this book."
—Joseph Patchen, LuridLit