The Presence A Novel

Beyond the sparkling Hawaiian beaches, masked by the deceptive beauty of the rainforest, evil awaits sixteen-year-old Michael Sundquist and his mother, Katharine, an anthropologist who has come to the Islands to study the unusual skeletal remains unearthed on the volcanic flanks of Haleakala, Maui. Yet far below the black depths of the Pacific a mysterious substance snakes through undiscovered fissures in the ocean floor, as nature itself seems to portend the terror to come.

JOHN SAUL's first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. He has since written nineteen successive bestselling novels of suspense, including Black Lightning, Guardian, and The Homing. He is most recently the author of the New York Times bestselling serial thriller The Blackstone Chronicles--initially published in six installments, now available in one volume. Mr. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Maui, Hawaii.