Michael J. McCann
The Author of The Ghost Man
The Ghost Man (2009)
Simon wanted to be left alone, but they had other ideas. Now something terrible from the Other Side wants to destroy them all! Simon Guthrie's life changes forever in the automobile crash that kills his wife and leaves him with a serious head injury. One moment he is a successful chef de cuisine with his own restaurant and a millionaire wife who is the CEO of her own company, and the next he is lying in a hospital bed trying to make sense of a near-death experience in which he travelled a dark, mysterious road to an encounter with a frightening evil presence. After his release from hospital he realizes how truly different his life will be when the ghosts begin to appear, seeking his help to pass on to the next life. But it is eight days in October two years after the accident that determine whether or not Simon will survive the final showdown with the evil entity behind it all.
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Reviews of The Ghost Man
"The Ghost Man opens with a scene right out of Poltergeist, and it keeps moving along at a nice pace.... Yet, Michael McCann’s novel is uniquely his own.... McCann creates a truly scary adversary who isn’t going to lose what he’s after without leaving a slew of casualties as he passes through Simon Guthrie’s life.... McCann writes well. Dialogue is nicely balanced with well-honed descriptive passages. His characters are fully developed for the roles they play. And I also enjoyed the little bits of Canadiana he worked into the story." Clayton Bye, The Deepening World of Fiction
"The Ghost Man should appeal to readers whose tastes run to ghosts, spirits, demons, exorcisms.... There are voices and signs and poltergeists a plenty, and a fantastical last dozen pages that should appeal to fans of this genre." Jim Prebble, North Grenville Community Newsletter