The Quiet Hunger

THE QUIET HUNGER

A Cannibal Priest Novel — Father Hank Smithe, Book One

Father Hank Smithe is the best priest the town of London, Ohio has ever had. He remembers every name. He listens like no one else. He never lies.

Twelve years ago, in a collapsed building outside Duluth, he knelt beside a dying man and did nothing. What he took from that dark room has oriented him ever since, like a needle to the pole.

Now a parish fishing trip is heading north, onto the frozen lakes of Canada — and Father Michael Kearns, charming, ambitious, admired by everyone, is coming along. The world, Hank observes, is arranging itself. He arranges nothing. He only receives what the world offers.

That is the story he tells himself. It is true in every line but one.

A literary horror novel about appetite, faith, and the perfect lie — told from inside the stillest mind you will ever occupy. For readers of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels and Thomas Harris. No gore. Something colder.

Details: Full-length novel, approx. 57,000 words · Book One of the Cannibal Priest series · EPUB format, reads on any phone, tablet, or e-reader app · Instant download