RAGMAN
In 1882, a group of British soldiers plunder an Egyptian temple and kill the high priest. The priest vows revenge, and is finally revived in the present day. He finds the great-grandson of the man who killed him, but they form an uneasy partnership to get back all the stolen artifacts and send all the descendants of the other soldiers to the Underworld. Two police officers, former partners who had a falling out, must put aside their differences as they go from trying to solve gruesome, unexplained murders to risking their lives to stop the supernatural mummy the priest has called forth.
I've always loved movies and stories about mummies and ancient Egyptian gods. But actual books about these subjects are pretty rare. So one day I decided that we need more, and I should write one.
The idea for it had been percolating in my head for a long time, so it was just a matter of sitting down and deciding which gods. I didn't want to just do a rehash of the Universal Studios mummies, or Anne Rice's semi-romantic mummy tale. I wanted action, and horror, and I wanted it in modern times.
Originally I thought about setting RAGMAN in a small town, like many of my other novels. But then I thought, a big city like Manhattan would make it so much harder to find and catch a monster, and the anonymity of a city would help a certain high priest lay low. Once I had the setting and general plot, it was just a matter of creating a twist on the typical buddy cop substory.
