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This series follows a teenager wrestling with his dark side and an obsession with serial killers, desperately trying not to become one himself. He has spent his life suppressing his dangerous potential. However, when an uncontrollable external threat emerges, he is forced to confront a menace that jeopardizes everything he holds dear. It's a thrilling exploration of battling inner demons while facing an outside danger.

I Am Not A Serial Killer. Ich bin kein Serienkiller, englische Ausgabe
Mr. Monster
Nothing Left to Lose
Over Your Dead Body (John Cleaver)
I Don't Want to Kill You
The Devil's Only Friend

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  1. 1

    I Am Not A Serial Killer. Ich bin kein Serienkiller, englische Ausgabe

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.8(21503)Add rating

    John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential.He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation.Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don't demand or expect the empathy he's unable to offer. Perhaps that's what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there's something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat---and to appreciate what that difference means.Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he can't control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could.Dan Wells' debut novel is the first volume of a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams.

    I Am Not A Serial Killer. Ich bin kein Serienkiller, englische Ausgabe
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    Mr. Monster

    • 287 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    4.1(792)Add rating

    I killed a demon. I don't know if it was really, technically a demon, but I do know that he was some kind of monster, with fangs and claws and the whole bit, and he killed a lot of people. So I killed him. I think it was the right thing to do. At least the killing stopped. Well, it stopped for a while. In I Am Not a Serial Killer, John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies. But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one has brought another to Clayton County. Soon there are new victims for John to work on at the mortuary and a new mystery to solve. But John has tasted death, and the dark nature he used as a weapon---the terrifying persona he calls "Mr. Monster"---might now be using him. No one in Clayton is safe unless John can vanquish two nightmarish adversaries: the unknown demon he must hunt and the inner demon he can never escape. In this sequel to his brilliant debut, Dan Wells ups the ante with a thriller that is just as gripping and even more intense. He apologizes in advance for the nightmares.

    Mr. Monster
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    The Devil's Only Friend

    4.1(4271)Add rating

    John Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can . . . . . . but the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full scale supernatural war. John doesn't want the life he's stuck with. He doesn't want the FBI bossing him around, he doesn't want his only friend imprisoned in a mental ward, and he doesn't want to face the terrifying cannibal who calls himself The Hunter. John doesn't want to kill people. But as the song says, you can't always get what you want. John has learned that the hard way; his clothes have the stains to prove it. When John again faces evil, he'll know what he has to do. The Devil's Only Friend is the first book in a brand-new John Wayne Cleaver trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Dan Wells.

    The Devil's Only Friend
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    Nothing Left to Lose

    • 336 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    4.1(132)Add rating

    A killer of monsters searches for the last of the Withered-- ancient, ageless beings who have preyed on mankind for 10,000 years-- while he himself is hunted by the FBI.

    Nothing Left to Lose