Product Description

It was to be a routine job. Matt Franklin and his companions would rob the Securicor van. Simple. Until the job turned into a nightmare. Two of them are shot dead and another fatally wounded. But who is trying to wipe them out, killing not just them but their families too? How are the Government and the British army implicated? What lurks within a secret research establishment in the English countryside? Franklin has to find out. Finally the only one left alive, he tires of being the prey and decides to become the hunter. His quest will bring him into conflict with forces he cannot begin to imagine or understand but he is driven by a need for revenge that overrides his fear. Aided by a desperate detective, Franklin becomes embroiled in a series of events that lead to a terrifying climax in the London Underground where he comes face to face with the answers he has sought. Like all of us, Franklin was told monsters don't exist. He's about to find out someone was lying...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #318509 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Review
From the first page the story takes a grip like the rollers of a mangle on an unwary fingertip... For sheer lean, mean page-turning thrillers, Necessary Evil is the work of a master' - WHAT'S ON IN LONDON 'Dark stuff from the Master of Dark...Chilling' - LADS Mag 'The pace rarely flags' - SFX Shaun Hutson is an expert in the art of keeping the reader turning the pages' - TIME OUT.

What's On In London
'For sheer lean, mean page-turning thrills, NECESSARY EVIL is the work of a master'

About the Author
Shaun Hutson is a bestselling author of horror fiction and has written novels under eight different pseudonyms. He has also contributed stories to 'Kerrang' and 'Raw' and used to host Sky TV's 'Monsters of Rock' programme.

Customer Reviews

One of Hutson's best and most involved novels to date.
Shaun Hutson’s recent novel “Necessary Evil” is a complete return to form for the ‘Godfather Of Gore’. Obviously highly influenced by the recent events of terrorist attacks, Hutson delivers a powerful and compelling novel. From the very beginning, the reader is thrown into the fast-paced action with copious blood spillage on every page.

The tale moves around the main character Matt Franklin, who’s career is that of a professional criminal. Hutson uses this to create a somewhat cliqued character who resembles a less lawful Sean Doyle (Renegades, White Ghost, Knife Edge, Hybrid). With action and plot twists pumped into each page, it’s very difficult to put the book down once you start reading it.

Being a Hutson fan for many, many years now, I can safely say that this is one of his best novels to date. He has kept the energy and passion to shock and repulse his readers, creating this crossover between a thriller and a horror novel.

Running for a total of 468 pages, “Necessary Evil” is one of the longest novels he has written so far. Still, he manages to keep the tension mounting from early on in the story until the final dramatic conclusion. The novel does include a big flaw at the end involving compressed CO2 which Hutson believes is apparently flammable! However, this does not in anyway detract from the story, but will give the reader a bit of a chuckle.

Well worth picking up, especially if you’ve enjoyed previous Hutson novels.

Fiction or Fact?!?!?!
Wow what a great read and a frighteningly accurate picture of what "might be". The chase through the underground system of London is so eerily close to home it really makes you think. Brilliant thriller, thanks.

An excellent thriller that was literally before its time.
An excellent story by this brilliant author. I had to check the date on the book as some of the events portrayed in the book have only recently just happened. It was so addictive that I started reading it one afternoon and took it to work as I was on night shift. By 5am the next morning I had finished the entire book and was left finally with a feeling of fulfilment and satisfaction. The sort of feeling you get when you have read a truly excellent piece of literature. Well Done to the author(again).