'A book that is timely and sensitive in its exploration of the forces that make adolescent boys cut off their empathy for others and choose violence and submission to charismatic leaders as a means of channeling their isolation and frustration.'
Helen Brown, The Telegraph
'This is tightly written, very original and an absolute must read.'
Flipside Magazine
Jon knows what he has to do. If he isn't strong, everyonein his school is going to die.Or so he's been told by Jeremiah, the manipulative, deluded leader of the Brotherhood of Hebetheus - a group of lonely, damaged boys who have started a new religion that makes them feel invincible. But when the boys become convinced that a classmate is involved in a plot to blow up the school, they know they must act. No one will believe them and so they lay their own plans - plans that lead to theft, kidnap, a media frenzy, and, ultimately, bloodshed.
Sam worked as a chess journalist and publicist before giving it all up to write full time. Sam contributes regularly to the literary magazine Tomazi and is the author of the young adult novel 'A Nicer Way to Die'.
The book has been published in numerous countries and is known as ‘The Viper Within’ in the United States.
