Jeremy Wagner, guitarist for Broken Hope and Earthburner, will have his new and extreme splatterpunk / horror novel, Wretch, released on February 24, 2026 via Dead Sky Publishing.
After teaming up with Curtis Duffy to write a USA Today bestselling memoir Fireproof, Jeremy Wagner returns to fiction with Wretch. The novel is a relentless descent into crime, horror, and vengeance along the same vein as books like: Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon, and Rex Miller’s Slob.
Jeremy Wagner has published various works of short fiction, non-fiction, and novels. He’s also written music and lyrics spanning ten albums with his international metal bands, Broken Hope and Earthburner.
More About Wretch: Chicago is choking under the hottest summer on record, but the true heat comes from the blood spilled on its streets.
Detective Donnie Lynch trails a killer who shouldn’t exist. Mob boss Tico “The Meatgrinder” Tortellio has stepped out from the shadows of his empire with a personal vendetta to avenge his daughter—and nothing short of blood will settle the score. Both men are hunting the same man—if “man” is still the right word…
The elusive killer, Derek Hoffman, is a steroid-abusing sociopath whose body and mind have been twisted beyond recognition after participating in a clinical trial for an experimental ED-arousal drug, called LIBIDONAL. Hoffman has become something monstrous, a predator driven by lust, rage, and a thirst for blood.
With the city becoming a killing ground for a new apex predator, Lynch and Tortellio race toward the same target. But who will reach Hoffman first? And when they do, will bullets or brutality be enough to stop him?
(Source: www.bravewords.com)