![]() ![]() Thus, for once the antagonist isn’t a mad scientist bent on world domination but a severely maimed punk whose destiny just happens to fall into his lap one day, in the guise of a bevy of giant preying mantises released from the bowels of the Earth by a catastrophic earthquake.ĭyke uses this development to his advantage by entrapping the biggest of the mantises, a creature he monikers Slayer. ![]() There are, however, several breaks with the formula.ĮAT THEM ALIVE takes place on the expected deserted tropical island, where a disgruntled misanthrope named Dyke(!) is longing to track down the gang of punks who castrated and left him for dead years earlier. Such novels more often than not featured mutant insects, which this one does, and oodles of exploitative violence, of which this one contains more than its share. Those factors were part and parcel of the “Nasties” of the seventies, written by the likes of James Herbert and Guy N. Who the hell is Pierce Nace? Based on the appropriately titled EAT THEM ALIVE, Nace’s only book, this author is evidently a demented fuck with a penchant for over-the-top gore and misogynistic sleaze. ![]()
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