Esteemed author on writing as obsession
Award-winning author Benjamin Percy is coming to Brooklyn next week to celebrate the release of his latest novel, a thriller titled “Red Moon” (Grand Central Publishing). The book – which has already received high praise from acclaimed authors and critics – goes on sale on Tuesday, May 7, and that evening Percy will appear at BookCourt in Cobble Hill for a reading, launch party, and book signing.
Set in the American West, “Red Moon” follows complex characters whose disparate lives are intertwined. Percy weaves in supernatural elements of horror, creating a world in which some are infected with a disease that turns them into lycans (werewolves), while the non-infected population is intent on terminating the lycans.
Percy’s characters include Claire Forrester, a lycan teenager who witness her parents’ murder at the hands of government agents; Patrick Gamble, another teen, who emerges an uninfected hero after surviving a lycan invasion on a plane; and Chase Williams, a possible presidential candidate, who exhibits suspicious behavior.