The Second Coast
by G. Carrion
His father knew. His father never told him.
Part of a trilogy
Book Two of Calix Sanguinis
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Five months after Severobor, Dr. Rafael Volkov steps off a plane in Salvador, Bahia, with a piece of seven-hundred-year-old parchment in his pocket and a body that no longer quite belongs to him.
In the fishing villages of the Bay of All Saints, fishermen are dying in a pattern the local police are calling a drug cartel. In the Pelourinho house where Rafael’s father was born, his aunt Tia Marta has been waiting eighteen years to tell him what her brother really did with his life. Bruno was a hunter. He hunted the thing in the bay for forty years, four times, and died without telling his son.
Rafael meets a Candomblé mãe de santo who has been waiting thirty-nine years to tell him how much his father loved him. And in the rainforest interior of the Paraguaçu valley, in the ruins of a Jesuit mission that vanished in 1712, something older than the chain is watching from inside a strangler fig.
For readers of Justin Cronin’s The Passage, Christopher Buehlman’s The Lesser Dead, Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts, Adam Nevill’s The Ritual
“His father knew. His father never told him.”
— Calix Sanguinis
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