The Extinction Club

by Jeffrey Moore

On the last stroke of November, as Nile Nightingale examines a church with a faded for-sale sign, he is startled by a gun-racked pickup barrelling down the country lane. With a sack roped to the roof, it veers past the church and comes to a spinning stop beside the cemetery. Silence, then a thud. With that sound ends the peace Nile expected to find when he fled the addictions, exhaustions, and legal problems of home by heading north, illegally, into Quebec's Laurentian Mountains. Inside the burlap sack is the bloodied body of a still breathing teenage girl. Against his better judgment, Nile resolves to treat her wounds and find those who left her for dead.
The Extinction Club is a darkly comic tale, in which the very urban Nile and the country-smart, near-genius Céleste teach each other about life and death, love and loss.


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Jeffrey Moore studied applied linguistics and languages in North America and Europe. He works as a translator and lecturer in Montreal and Val Morin, Quebec. His novels have won several awards and have been published in 20 countries.

This is a moving novel that explores the notion of survival of the fittest in a society that preys upon defenseless things. The author successfully juxtaposes the comic and the horrific in order to tell the tale of a remarkable friendship between two lost souls.