Rex is ditching school today, dreading the inevitable bullying and shame after the BoyCo boys broke his arm. Besides, he is too excited by last night’s dream where he got revenge by murdering Oscar Woody. If only it weren’t a dream…Pookie continues to manage the fallout of an impossible situation: is his partner a crazed killer? And as the autopsy results start to come back for Robin Hudson, she’s left to wonder: just what kind of a killer is she looking at?

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The mangled corpse of Oscar Woody on the pavement, graffiti painted on the brick walls in his blood, and everything points toward one man as the killer: Bryan Clauser. Will homicide inspector Pookie Chang do the right thing and bring his partner in?

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The line between Bryan’s dreams and hard reality has been growing thinner and thinner. His worst nightmare yet leads him into a situation that will make him question his sanity.

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Bryan’s career is on the line as he and Pookie get the results from the Shooting Review Board. Was it a “righteous shoot,” or is Bryan — who has killed five people in the line of duty — the trigger-happy killer most cops think he is. When Aggie James wakes up, he will find that things have changed for the worse. Rex faces someone even meaner and more frightening…his mother.

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Going through a bit of a hard few years, Aggie James most just wants to be warm, dry, and extremely high. Doesn’t make any trouble, doesn’t want anything troubling him. Just as we meet him, he’s about to meet a few new folks himself … folks who are the very definition of trouble. 

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Bryan and Pookie visit with Frank Lanza and his crew, recently transplanted to San Francisco from the East Coast. Unsurprisingly, things don’t go exactly as planned. When the bullets fly, who will be left standing? And, Rex begins the rite of passage we have all faced, only for him, the change becomes a nightmare.

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Meet Rex Deprovdechuk: young, bullied, forlorn, and struggling to find his place in the world. Feeling sick, but no chance his surly mother will let him stay home from school. Even so, his day gets better when he hears the news about one Father Paul Maloney.

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In the first episode of NOCTURNAL, Paul Maloney was once "Father" Paul Maloney, but his sordid deeds meant a defrocking, a fall from grace. Now Paul thinks people are after him, and he seeks sanctuary at a church that was once his.

San Francisco homicide inspectors Bryan "The Terminator" Clauser and Pookie Chang usually work the night shift, but the brutal murder of a well-connected businessman has them on days. Maloney, Clauser, and Chang are about to meet, and not in a way that will make anyone happy.

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Homicide detective Bryan Clauser is losing his mind.

How else to explain the dreams he keeps having—dreams that mirror, with impossible accuracy, the gruesome serial murders taking place all over San Francisco? How else to explain the feelings these dreams provoke in him— not disgust, not horror, but excitement?

As Bryan and his longtime partner Pookie Chang investigate the murders, they learn that things are even stranger than they at first seem. The victims are all enemies of an outwardly ordinary young boy—a boy who is gripped by the same dreams that haunt Bryan. Meanwhile, a shadowy vigilante, seemingly armed with superhuman powers, is out there killing the killers. And Bryan and Pookie's superiors—from the Mayor on down—appear strangely eager to keep the detectives from discovering the truth.

Doubting his own sanity and stripped of his badge, Bryan begins to suspect that he's stumbled into the crosshairs of a shadow war that has gripped his city for more than a century—a war waged by a race of killers living in San Francisco's unknown, underground ruins, emerging at night to feed on those who will not be missed. 

And as Bryan learns the truth about his own intimate connections to the killings, he discovers that those who matter most to him are in mortal danger… and that he may be the only man gifted—or cursed—with the power to do battle with the nocturnals.

Featuring a dazzlingly plotted mystery and a terrifying descent into a nightmarish underworld—along with some of the most incredible action scenes ever put to paper and an explosive, gut-wrenching conclusion you won't soon forget—NOCTURNAL is the most spectacular outing to date from one of the genre's brightest stars.

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