Even if you don’t, you’ll enjoy McCammon’s crisp prose, strong character development, intricate plotting, inevitable twists and turns, and the high octane buildup to a climatic ending. If you love heavy-metal music and rock bands, then this novel is right up your alley.

How many will have to die before the sniper is finally caught? The only problem with the FBI agent is that he’s an ex-Marine and wants to bring in the sniper safely at the risk of losing someone else in the band. Once the FBI becomes involved in the killings, the special agent in charge takes over the role of their manager and drives them from job to job, fighting the fans and the reporters. The strange thing is as a band member is killed, the band itself becomes more famous with the media circling like vultures. The sniper starts picking them off one at a time.

They’ve been writing their own songs and making the nightly gigs to lounges and stages around the southwestern part of the country for three years, struggling to make a name for themselves and to get that lucky break.Įverything changes when an ex-Marine sniper starts hunting them because of comments made in an interview about the soldiers in Iraq. The central theme of the new novel revolves around a heavy-metal band named The Five that’s made up of three men and two women with a manager driving the van. McCammon’s newest novel, “The Five,” continues his journey of being one of the best authors alive in America today who refuses to be confined to any one genre, be it horror, thrillers, drama or historical. That’s a long time to be a fan of one author.ĭuring those three decades, I’ve had the pleasure of reading his other novels, including “They Thirst,” “Swan Song,” “Usher’s Passing,” “Mystery Walk,” “Boy’s Life,” “Speaks the Nightbird” and “Mister Slaughter,” just to name a few.

I’ve been a fan of Robert McCammon since his first novel, “Baal,” was published in paperback in 1978.

The five by robert mccammon