Necro Publications

My wife and I spent Labor Day at Delaware's Rehobeth Beach. I took several books along with me, and started with this one. I finished it the same day. Could not put it down, not even when the Britney Spears and Beyonce look-alikes played volleyball in front of me.

THE PRESERVE may very well be one of the best debut novels I've ever had the pleasure of reading. There are no rough spots, no fumbles, no missteps. Lestewka deftly guides both his characters and the reader, weaving a plot packed with crisp dialogue, page-turning action, and surprises and twists with every chapter.

The characters live and breath, and you probably know several of them. They're the people around us, scars and all. You may not sympathize with all of them -- hell, you may very well loathe one or two of them -- but I guarantee you that you'll recognize them.

THE PRESERVE concerns an elite Marine combat unit on their last mission in Vietnam. What they discover deep within the jungles is evil at its utmost core. Now, years later, they are haunted by the past - not just in flashbacks and memories, but by something much worse.
If it sounds like I'm avoiding talking about the plot in-depth, that's because I am. THE PRESERVE is a novel that breaks stereotypes -- and one of those is that just when you think you've figured out where it's going and what it's about, Lestewka yanks the rug out from under your feet. Talking about the plot in detail will give too much away, and that would be a shame. But if you dig weird war stories, zombies, vampires, werewolves, and sheer balls-to-the-wall horror/adventure, then this is a book YOU MUST NOT MISS. It's not for everyone. This is literary red meat, rather than literary bean sprouts; a heady mix of Edward Lee, Skipp & Spector, and Garth Ennis, a novel that combines black humor, crisp prose, buckets of gore, and has at its center, a very human heart.

Highly recommended.

I absolutely LOVED it!

--Brian Keene reviewing for HELLNOTES
Bram Stoker Award winning author of THE RISING and TERMINAL