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Friday Night Massacre Kindle Edition

by Michael Patrick Hicks (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Night Of The Demons meets Olympus Has Fallen in this novel of White House horror from “one of the supreme rulers of delivering unsettling, gore-filled bursts of violence” (Steve Stred, author of Ritual).

After succumbing to a deadly virus and incurring the wrath of voters in the 2020 election, the President of the United States makes a deathbed deal with the devil.

Imbued with supernatural power, President Tyler Coleridge refuses to surrender office after being defeated by his rival candidate and rings in the New Year with a White House bloodbath.

After turning against the press and his own Secret Service detail in a violent display of savagery, it’s up to the lone survivor of Coleridge’s protective detail, Mike Hutchinson, to put a stop to the U.S. president’s reign of madness before the nation is utterly crippled.

Inspired by recent events, Friday Night Massacre is a splatterpunk horror action novel in the grindhouse fashion, with a dash of comic book sensibility.

Friday Night Massacre contains graphic content that may be upsetting to some and is recommended for readers of extreme horror.

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"Hicks is one of the supreme rulers of delivering unsettling, gore-filled bursts of violence, and Friday Night Massacre is equal parts cathartic and enraging." - Steve Stred, author of Ritual

"Heightened violence, interesting characters, and inventive action scenes effectively demonstrate that this is a well-rounded gorefest that you won't be able to put down." - The Indie Anthenaeum

"If you're in the market for a full on entertainment experience with the horror dial set to 'bananas' then this will be one you won't be able to put down." - Horror Oasis

About the Author

Michael Patrick Hicks is the author of several horror books, including The Resurrectionists, Broken Shells: A Subterranean Horror Novella, and Mass Hysteria. He co-hosts Staring Into The Abyss, a podcast focused on all things horror. His debut novel, Convergence, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Finalist in science fiction. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association.

Michael lives in Michigan with his wife and two children. In between compulsively buying books and adding titles that he does not have time for to his Netflix queue, he is hard at work on his next story.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08VMZ1NG5
Publisher ‏ : ‎ High Fever Books (February 1, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3845 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 211 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,908,420 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #651 in Occult Cults & Demonism
- #2,724 in U.S. Horror Fiction
- #4,357 in Horror Suspense

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Michael Patrick Hicks is the author of several horror books, including the Salem Hawley series and Friday Night Massacre. His debut novel, Convergence, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Finalist in science fiction, and his short stories have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies.

Connect with Michael at:

Substack: https://michaelpatrickhicks.substack.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeH5856

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7909523.Michael_Patrick_Hicks

Instagram: http://instagram.com/mphicks79

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John A.

Ghastly, horrific, highly recommended

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2021

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Really good horror story. A narrative drenched in fresh blood and other fluids.

Read it all within hours of having purchased it.

Terrifyingly plausible. If you believe a man and his family are wicked and have no morals at all, why not believe they made a pact with demonic forces for eternal life and temporal power?

For adults with strong stomachs only. Many of the passages are bound to make the reader cringe and retch in disgust.

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kimnappi

All hell is breaking loose in The White House

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2021

Now first I am sure I wrote a review of this crazy, insane, bloody, disturbing and oddly funny book. As I’ve lost reviews on GR before this is a re-write of a previous review.

The President of the USA is dying of COVID. Once he passes, him and his evil first family raise an ancient ritual to bring him back. What happens next is a massacre of epic proportions.

It’s up to a reluctant secret service agent to quell the chaos.

Gory and fun ride! Teetering on shock horror for the buckets of blood and entrails, you’ve been warned.

If that doesn’t bother you then you are in for an awesome read, enjoy!

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Kate

An appropriate book to wrap up madness of the last 4 years

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2021

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This was entertaining and gruesome book, fits ideally the current times. It shoud be added to history books of US as so much of it is true. What I found positive is an idea that the support of people was caused by out of this world magic powers and not by free will. Gives a glimpse of hope!

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Chris Fried @ The Indie Athenaeum

The President & his family enact a deadly plan in this action-packed, carnage filled satire!

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2021

President Tyler Coleridge lost the election and he unequivocally knows his time in the White House is ending. However, now he has contracted COVID-19 and he is on his deathbed. On New Year’s Eve, his entire family surrounding him, the President’s wife Melanie leads them all in a mysterious ritual. The next day, the President calls for a press conference, his family in attendance. But when the meeting goes off the rails, the press corps is under assault and killed in gruesome ways!

Meanwhile, Secret Service agent Mike Hutchinson goes to work as a member of the President’s protective detail. Hating the President and his family with a passion, Mike nevertheless perseveres in his career having served two previous Presidents and this one for over the past sixteen years. His experience has served him well, but his skills are about to be tested like never before.

Now, Coleridge and his family have gained supernatural abilities and are wreaking havoc in the White House on a killing spree. But there is a plan at work here and its implementation means the entire planet might face drastic consequences. It’s a race against time to see as Mike and the Secret Service try to prevent the unthinkable from happening!

The plot moves at a swift pace and the action rivals that of the best action movies you’ve ever seen. Coleridge and his family scheme, cajole and when all else fails, decimate their way through the White House to enact their plan, one action scene after another. They don’t care whom they must kill to enact their master plan, whether they are allies or enemies.

Mike and his cohorts fight their way through Coleridge’s allies as lives hang in the balance. The action spills out over the grounds of the White House as the United States is thrown into chaos. As Coleridge’s allies, the white supremacist group 88 Blades, converge on the White House, the chaos heightens to the next level.

It’s pulse-pounding action as I hoped that Mike would win the day with each obstacle he and his Secret Service allies faced. As he tries to get to Coleridge, one by one he tries to dispatch members of Coleridge’s coterie and gets closer to his ultimate objective. There’s plenty of definitive action-movie moments as the battle rages across the White House. As the situation continues to intensify and grows ever direr, I wondered who would live and who would die.

It’s an absolute slaughter as people are disemboweled and destroyed in different and horrific ways. But this is a Michael Patrick Hicks novel and plenty of over-the-top horror and death are to be expected. This is a strong hallmark of his writing and part of his unique, signature style.

Having read other stories by him, I know that I will viscerally feel each death and twinge at every repugnant act the Coleridge family commits. The hideous ways people die are part of this macabre novel and the supernatural elements of this story elevate the action in frightening and unpredictable ways.

The action ramps up to ten and keeps the pedal to the metal all the way through. I haven’t finished a novel this quickly in a while! It doesn’t take long until the plot gets moving and accelerates into a roller-coaster fast pace from there. It’s like that right up through to the surprising and unexpected ending.

Mike and his fellow Secret Service agents are given characterization and depth. This is deftly embedded into the story without slowing it down. But it helped me understand their motivations as well as their relationships with one another. This makes you care for them and pump your fist in the air if they succeed with each difficult hurdle they face. It also made me sad if someone I was rooting for died in their quest to purge the White House of this evil presence.

There’s also plenty of exposition in the story about Coleridge, his wife, his family, and his adult children, who are also his advisors. Their actions over the course of the past four years and their current actions helped me understand what degenerates they were, their selfish natures, and their overall evil personalities.

The action set pieces are gratuitous and well-written but you might be wondering about the satirical aspects of this novel. Tyler Coleridge is a stand-in for former President Trump and skewers him in the most laughable and shocking of ways. While there is plenty of recapping of Coleridge’s/Trump’s background and actions over the past few years, it reads like so many of the headlines that have dominated the news. In that way, it provides important context to Coleridge’s term as President. These recaps were succinct and well-integrated into the story.

However, as someone who has kept an eye on the news, those recaps also were the moments that slowed the novel down a little for me and were less interesting because it felt like it was reliving the news. However, once the action became fast and furious, those moments became more minimal.

The story escalates to the next level when the author builds on those news events and amps up the satire. That’s where the brilliance of the author's dark humor and imagination came into play. Without revealing anything, it’s where the originality of this story shines the most brightly.

It is also within these aspects of the novel where it is the cleverest. It crucially holds the answers to the biggest questions I had as I read it. Namely, how did this happen and what is the hidden agenda of Coleridge and his family. It sparks the entire plot of the novel and was both funny and disturbing at the same time.

In light of recent events, this novel presents an excellent example of alternative history if Coleridge’s plan came to fruition and the fate of the United States went in a darker and far more different direction. Also, some of the things the author states in this novel are eerily prescient of what happened in the tumultuous months of January.

The satire of recent events combined with the supernatural adventure made for a compelling read. As demonic forces bring the carnage and drape the walls of the White House red with blood, the heightened violence, interesting characters, and inventive action scenes effectively demonstrate that this is a well-rounded gorefest that you won’t be able to put down.

Please note I received an advance copy of this ebook.

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