One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning

Written by David Moody

Narrated by Gerard Doyle

In One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning, David Moody returns to the world of his Hater trilogy with a new fast-paced, and wonderfully dark audiobook about humanity’s fight for survival in the face of the impending apocalypse.

The fewer left alive, the higher the stakes.
Kill the others, before one of them kills you.

Fourteen people are trapped on Skek, a barren island in the middle of the North Sea somewhere between the coasts of the UK and Denmark. Over the years this place has served many purposes—a fishing settlement, a military outpost, a scientific base—but one by one its inhabitants have abandoned its inhospitable shores. Today it’s home to Hazleton Adventure Experiences, an extreme sports company specializing in corporate team building events.

Life there is fragile and tough. One slip is all it takes. A momentary lapse leads to a tragic accident, but when the body count quickly starts to rise, questions are inevitably asked. Are the deaths coincidental, or something else entirely? Those people you thought you knew, can you really trust them? Is the person standing next to you a killer? Will you be their next victim?

A horrific discovery changes everything, and a trickle of rumors becomes a tsunami of fear. Is this the beginning of the end of everything, or a situation constructed by the mass hysteria of a handful of desperate and terrified people?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Dec 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781427296405

David Moody

David Moody was born in 1970 and grew up in Birmingham, UK, on a diet of trashy horror and pulp science fiction books and movies. He worked as a bank manager and as operations manager for a number of financial institutions before giving up the day job to write about the end of the world for a living. He has written a number of horror novels, including AUTUMN, which has been downloaded more than half a million times since publication in 2001 and has spawned a series of sequels and a movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine. Film rights to HATER were snapped up by Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) and Mark Johnson (producer of Breaking Bad and the Chronicles of Narnia films). Moody lives with his wife and a houseful of daughters and stepdaughters, which may explain his pre-occupation with Armageddon.

Reviews for One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning

[tom sklar-blake · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

It's not very good. There's no character development, so it's hard to remember who's who whenever action is taking place, and everyone's motive seems to be 'do the dumbest thing possible that will cause the most amount of conflict.' I don't mind when characters do stupid things, but without any character development, there's no motivation for anyone's bad decisions - except that the author would like more chaos because he doesn't know how to create even 2-dimensional characters.

There are some fractions of good ideas here - like when main characters are engaged in violence and have to wonder if they have become villainous 'haters' without knowing it. But even when those ideas show up, they're never developed.

Still, I finished the book, so I guess that says something.