Network of Fear

A sixty-thousand-year old artifact and a brilliant but indifferent researcher set the scene for a series of paranormal acts which seriously challenge the concept of what mankind views as normal. When Roland Kendrick accompanied his fellow journalist to Portland for a long weekend break, he is unprepared for the events which subsequently unfold, and he finds himself on the periphery of a series of brutal murders. This misfortune propels him right into the midst of it, and the rapidly mounting danger causes him to flee into the unknown where he skirts around a dark underworld of greed, sex, and violence. Since adolescence, he had developed a weird psychic warning of danger which he calls his red tide, and now this talent narrowly assists him to avoid his assailants. His subsequent friendship with an aggressive blond Norseman and a rambunctious cat might make for an unholy and unlikely alliance, but they are both well suited to assist him to cope and survive in this threatening lifestyle, and slowly the bond between them develops into a formidable force. Gradually his heritage comes to the fore, and he develops more latent and strange psychic and paranormal abilities which assist them in their struggles against their assailants, and they set out to confront them and to discover what secrets these evil cultists strive so viciously to conceal.