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Personal Demons

Book 1 in the series:The Jake Helman Files

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Personal Demons follows the gripping journey of Jake Helman, a disgraced New York City Homicide Detective, who gets entangled in a twisted plot involving a reclusive billionaire selling genetic mutations and human souls for immortality. As Jake delves into the case of a serial killer known as The Cipher, he is thrown into a rollercoaster of supernatural elements, gore, and a battle between Heaven and Hell. The writing style is described as clunky at times but manages to keep readers engaged until the end with its gritty realism and unpredictable twists.

Characters:

The characters, particularly Jake Helman, are interesting and complicated, despite some secondary figures being somewhat predictable.

Writing/Prose:

The writing style combines gritty realism with engaging storytelling, although it sometimes suffers from clunkiness.

Plot/Storyline:

The plot begins as a police detective narrative about a serial killer but quickly shifts into a horror story filled with supernatural elements and a battle between good and evil.

Setting:

The setting is urban and gritty, with a blend of mundane and supernatural elements.

Pacing:

The pacing starts as traditional detective fiction but accelerates dramatically, leading to a gripping and hard-to-put-down narrative.

Notes:

Jake Helman is a homicide detective with a troubled past.
He resigns from the police force due to a shooting incident.
After resigning, he receives a lucrative job offer for 300K a year.
The job is not what he expected and leads him into a horror situation.
The story shifts from detective fiction to horror about halfway through.
Jake faces off against demons and glimpses of heaven and hell.
He encounters a battle between angels and demons over humanity's fate.
The book includes elements like genetic mutations and a reclusive billionaire.
The plot is described as far-fetched but entertaining.
There are themes of addiction and redemption woven into the story.
Readers find the writing style to be a mix of clunky and engaging.
The book contains significant amounts of gore, making it not for the squeamish.
Personal Demons blends crime fiction with supernatural horror elements.

Sensitive Topics/Content Warnings

The book contains graphic violence, gore, substance abuse, and intense supernatural themes.

From The Publisher:

Jake Helman, an elite member of the New York Special Homicide Task Force, faces what every cop dreads-an elusive serial killer. While investigating a series of bloodletting sacrifice rituals executed by an ominous perpetrator known as the Cipher, Jake refuses to submit to a drug test and resigns from the police department. While battling a cocaine addiction, Jake starts a high-pressure position as the director of security at Tower International, a controversial genetic-engineering company. Beneath the polished exterior of the corporate identity and the CEO-who has a reputation as the frontiersman on the cutting edge of science-is a deranged mind. As Jake delves deeper into this frightening laboratory, he discovers much more than unethical practices performed in the name of human progress. Sequestered in rooms veiled in secrecy is the worst crime the world will ever see-the theft of the human soul. Horrifying and gruesome, this is a gripping, suspense-filled novel that offers intense arguments about science, ethics, and human life.

 
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