Black

From Black, a dramatic novel about a financial executive who had reached the pinnacle of success, but now must confront the kidnapper of his daughter, and his darkest inner demons:

"Behind him rose the massive shadow of the Demon. James slowly turned to face it.

On the bridge the volcano shook violently. Fire surged upward around them. The Demon towered before him.

James raised the sledgehammer high above his head—and roared.

The weight of the sledgehammer hung in his hands like judgment itself. His muscles rattled, not from weakness but from the storm raging inside him. The bridge beneath his feet groaned in protest, bricks crumbling and falling into the abyss below. Then James roared again. It was not simply a cry of rage, but the sound of a soul cornered, a spirit refusing to die.

James ripped off his white shirt and hurled it aside. The cloth fluttered across the broken stones before settling in a dark corner of the ruined enclosure. Sweat and blood streaked his chest. His breathing came hard and sharp as he stared at the monstrous presence before him.

The wall of smoke and fire moved. From it emerged the Demon."