Peter Straub's most acclaimed and biggest-selling novel - a visceral thriller with its roots in Vietnam - now reissued in a new cover style and making its first appearance on the HarperCollins list.

'KOKO ' Only four men knew what it meant. Vietnam vets. One was a doctor. One was a lawyer. One was a working stiff. One was a writer. All were as different as men could be - yet all were bound eternally together by a single shattering secret. And now they are joined together again on a quest that could take them from the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York, hunting an inhuman ghost of the past risen from nightmare darkness to kill and kill

Review
'Brilliantly written ... an inspired thriller ... his finest work.' Washington Post 'Complexly plotted, thickly layered evil ... the ultimate horror!' New York Times 'A blood-chilling hair-raiser!' Los Angeles Times 'Gruesome, double-edged ... an enormously entertaining and scary story ... rich, complex, dark and tough to put down' New York Daily News 'Peter Straub is the great classicist of horror fiction. His style, his storytelling and his grasp of horror's true potential know few equals. In any genre, a world-class author.' CLIVE BARKER

Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, and is the author of fourteen novels, including Ghost Story and The Talisman (with Stephen King). He has won the British Fantasy Award, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award and two World Fantasy Awards, and was elected Grand Master at the 1998 World Horror Convention. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has lived in Ireland and England, and now lives in New York City.