Fire Eyes by D. F. Bailey

Born by chance. Fueled by madness. Ignited by love.

FIRE EYES blends the tightly wound tension of THE KILLER INSIDE ME with the unrelenting suspense of SHUTTER ISLAND.

“A dynamite Read”
—Andreas Schroeder, author of The Eleventh Commandment

Billy Deerborn talks to the voices in his head and the dogs that roam his psyche. When he was a baby, he was found by the side of a road in a brown paper bag. Yesterday he blew up a power station.

Fire Eyes is the story in between those two events—the making of modern madness. From that roadside ditch, we follow Billy from foster homes to institutions to the army, along the way witnessing his fractured liaisons with the opposite sex and his attempts to find solidity through friendship.

Fire Eyes is a W.H. Smith First Novel Award finalist.