"Author Ian Ludlow writes great adventures, but after helping Chinese movie star Wang Mei defect to the United States, he becomes the accidental hero of a real-life espionage thriller. Now he's stuck with the actress - and suffering a nasty case of writer's block - when he stumbles into a secret Russian plot using "fake news" to outrage Americans into believing a terrifying lie. The only weapon Ian has against the global conspiracy, and the assassins who are closing in on him, is his vivid imagination. If his story isn't a killer thriller, he's dead."--Publisher description

Three stories of unspeakable evil make up The Dead Man Volume 1 , an action adventure collection full of dark humor, surprising twists, and supernatural terror: Matthew Cahill, dead and buried in an avalanche, wakes up in a morgue three months later in Face of Evil . But now he sees things no one else can and when his friend goes on a killing spree, he realizes the evil Mr. Dark has a plan for him. In search of Mr. Dark, Matt finds himself in Heaven, Washington, a tiny hamlet in the Cascade Mountains embroiled in a four-family blood feud in Hell in Heaven . Only Matt can stop the bloodshed, but even he is going to have a hard time figuring out why Mr. Dark brought him here. Matt believes a madman may hold the key to defeating Mr. Dark and his rotting touch. To find him, Matt must infiltrate a lunatic asylum in Ring of Knives --and his only chance of escaping alive is to face the unspeakable terror deep in the asylum's woods.