Cold Compass

Gabe is a disenchanted twenty year-old, dragged down for most of his life by the bizarre legacy his deceased father left behind. At the age of seventeen, Gabe was contacted by government employees that once worked with his father, offering him an outrageous salary if he would take part in an effort to revitalize his father's work. Bit by bit, Gabe discovers that the work his father was involved in was incredibly strange. His father was viewed by his peers as a mad scientist of sorts, dabbling in controversial projects concerning genetics manipulation, advanced space exploration, time travel, and ESP. On his first assignment as an unofficial member of a shadow organization known as the Center for Scientific Anomalous Research (CSAR), Gabe begins to understand that all of the rumors he had heard about his father were not only true, but severely downplayed. With the assistance of a CSAR official and a reluctant FBI agent, Gabe travels to the small town of Hasper, North Carolina where people are being killed by an ancient evil that lurks beneath the town. As if that wasn't bad enough, Gabe learns that it could all very well be the result of one of his father's failed studies. Along the way, Gabe must also contend with the fact that he is beginning to see ghosts and is being hunted down by an enigmatic figure that calls himself Garrison Sleet. Gabe is well aware that all of these events are linked to his father's work. As he begins to realize the grand scope of the projects his father was working on, Gabe understands that the only way to bring his father's demented legacy to a close is to complete his work. He must unravel something his father called Everything Theory and, potentially, alter the doomed fate of the world. Gabe slowly understands that even the evil lurking beneath Hasper is tied to not only his father's work, but to some integral part of him as well.


Genre: Horror