Book cover for The Year of the Hydra, A Novel

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We need a book cover suitable for PRINT (both trade paperback and hardcover).

General design notes: Prominent color. Photo-realistic elements. Sophisticated. Some dark/shadowy areas.

Genres: Literary, Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
Subgenres: Metaphysical, Action & Adventure

Back-cover text: Could a dark agenda be woven into the architecture of China’s most sacred ancient temple? An agenda that only Julian Mancer is seeing? Or is Julian off his meds again? If the structure were in fact a doomsday device awaiting an astronomical tripwire—could Julian stop it? Especially if, wound within his own DNA, lay the very same agenda? Julian is determined to discover the answer, as soon as he concludes a far more pressing matter involving a sixteen-year-old girl with a most intriguing mutation.

This book as been described as "A richly told, diagnosably insane, meandering yet captivating journey through everything good and bad about sex, drugs, and China---plus… Read more