David's dreary life is upended when he finds himself at the mysterious Chaos Farm, a lavish wilderness retreat populated by those seeking to right their lives' imbalances through New Age games and rites of necromancy. In a paranormal experiment gone awry, they inadvertently raise a mysterious bloodthirsty creature that may be the Devil.
Fiction. In this first book by musician-turned-novelist Rob Benvie, Lolita meets Maldoror meets 50s pulp horror comics. The novel follows David, an underworked copy writer addicted to old war movies whose life is upended when he finds himself at the mysterious Chaos Farm, face to face with a bloodthirsty creature inadvertently raised by a paranormal experiment gone awry. SAFETY OF WAR is a hellride of exploded symbolism and beery misadventures, murders and tragedies, laughs, puzzles and meditations on valour and sacrifice in a world short on true heroes.
