These Dark Woods

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A01=Barry Napier
Author_Barry Napier
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dark gritty action
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forthcoming
kidnapping crime fiction
organised crime fiction thriller
rural town crime thriller
small town conspiracies
southern rural noir
vigilante action thriller

Product details

  • ISBN 9781036714468
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Aug 2026
  • Publisher: Vinci Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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When men are worse than monsters, stopping them means stepping into the dark yourself.


After barely surviving his attempt to dismantle a major trafficking ring, Wade Rivers is left scarred but more obsessed than ever with the name that keeps slipping through his grasp. It’s a name whispered in fear and shrouded in mystery—a figure thought to be nothing more than a spooky tale.


As he peels back the layers of the myth surrounding this person, Wade learns that some don’t see him as a man at all, but as a monster. Wade doesn’t believe in monsters. He’s seen enough to know that cruel men can often be far more terrifying than anything imagined.


In one final attempt to end this nightmare, Wade heads into the dark woods not far from where he grew up. This time, he’ll have to face a man so feared, some say he’s not even human.


These Dark Woods is the third book in the Wade Rivers trilogy. A hard-edged rural noir where fear has a name and the truth cuts deep.

Barry has had more than 50 short stories and poems featured in print and online publications. He is the author multiple series, including It Falls Apart and the Cooper M. Reid series, as well as titles such as Bound, Break Every Chain, As Far Away as Possible, and From Below. He was also the winner of the 2012 Amazon contest "Write a Dead Man Novel" which awarded him a contract with 47 North to write the 18th installment of Amazon's Dead Man series, Streets of Blood. Barry also wrote the mobile-based Choose Your Adventure game, Buried, currently available on Steam and in the Apple Store. His fiction as appeared in publications as varied as a Norton anthology to a horror anthology thematically based on the Wizard of Oz.
Barry's stories are typically going to be a little spooky, if not downright scary (but this is not always the case). But he also offers glimmers of hope here and there. Some of his work could be categorized as Christian fiction, though there are typically elements of the paranormal and horror running throughout.
Barry works as a ghostwriter and lives in Virginia with his wife, three kids, and too many pets.

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