On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel.
Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and marked for demolition.
The five people are "creepers," the slang term for urban explorers: city archeologists with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets.
On this evening, they are joined by a reporter who wants to profile them - anonymously, as this is highly illegal activity - for a New York Times article. Frank Balenger, a sandy-haired, broad-shouldered reporter with a decided air of mystery about him, isn't looking for just a story, however.
And after the group enters the rat-infested tunnel leading to the hotel, it becomes clear that he will get much more than he bargained for. Danger, terror, and death await the creepers in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil.
“Burnt Sienna”
Famous artist, and ex-Marine, Chase Malone is hired by wealthy arms dealer Derek Bellasar to paint a portrait of his wife, Sienna.
Malone learns Bellasar has married a string of beauties--all of whom have died after their portrait was painted.
Now working for the CIA to keep a biological arms deal from going down, Chase must save Sienna--and his own life.
David Morrell is a Canadian novelist, best known for his debut 1972 novel “First Blood,” which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone.