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Haunted by the death of his wife and daughter, who died in a car he was driving, Jake Mann, a sexual obsessive, flees to the Catholic Church. After training as a Jesuit priest he is sent to Nigeria. There he suppresses his desire for women. At his teaching mission he proves too radical for both the Church and the local security forces, getting involved in protests against Big Oil, and discovering a talent for exorcism. Escaping with a 15-year-old Nigerian boy, following the final confrontation with a possessed police captain, Jake is given a 'disgraced' parish in Bristol, where he's expected to fail. Heavy trouble finds him there following a series of savage and bizarre killings that echo those committed by the police captain. Jake becomes a suspect when the police discover he was having a secret affair with one of the victims. Most terrifying for Jake is when he realises the identity of the darkest heart behind the killings...

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DARK HEART

Book One in the Exorcist Trilogy

GFNewman
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Contents

Title Page
Copyright Credits
About This Book
Readers Comments
Reviews

BOOK ONE: Out of Africa
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12

BOOK TWO: Chasing Demons
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Epilogue

Other Titles in the Exorcist Trilogy
About this book

Haunted by the death of his wife and daughter, who died ina car he was driving, Jake Mann, a sexual obsessive, flees to the CatholicChurch. After training as a Jesuit priest he is sent to Nigeria, there hesuppresses his sexual desires for women. At his teaching mission he proves too radical for both the Church and the local security forces, getting involved as he does in protests against Big Oil, and discovering a talent for exorcism.
Escaping with a 15-year-old Nigerian boy,following the final confrontation with a possessed policecaptain, Jake is given a disgraced parish in Bristol, where he s expected tofail. Heavy trouble finds him there following a series of savage and bizarrekillings that echo those committed by the police captain. Jakebecomes a suspect when the police discover he was having a secret affairwith one of the victims. The most terrifying revelation for the exorcist islearning the identity of the darkest heart behind these killings.
GFNewman is a double BAFTA award-winning creator of the highly successful BBC1 series Judge John Deed and the now famous Law and Order. He is the author of a number of successful novels including Crime and Punishment , Law and Order , Sir, You Bastard , Circle of Poison , The Nation s Health , The List , and The Men With The Guns .
Readers comment

Wow! Scary. - Jeni Hughes

A great read...about something. -
Tony Garnett

Rivetingly brilliant. Pulverisingly powerful
stuff and deliciously written. And the story
itself is a stormer. - Prof. Gary Slapper

Dark Heart gave me nightmares
about the world and some of those who are
no longer in it. - Charlotte Moncrieff

Dark Heart is a powerful piece of writing.
Acompelling novel. - Anthony Frewin

Dark Heart brilliantly and passionately
takes on a number of complex issues and makes them
accessible. I was gripped. - Roger Michell

The events were narrated with such realism
and power that I just couldn t go on with my normal life.
It felt like stress, when you lose
your appetite and desires. - Michelle Popova
What reviewers said
of Crime and Punishment

This is a rumbustious, violent, cynical and yetfrighteningly credible romp through the underbelly of three decades of Britishhistory. The Times
If you like crime thrillers, this book will notdisappoint. It delivers exactly what it promises. Edinburgh Evening News
Accurate and entertainingly well written. SundayExpress
Goes straight for the jugular with a sex andviolence-fuelled four-generation history of a dodgy East End family. It scertainly a page-turner. The List
GFNewman is formidably talented and impressivelypassionate. Mail on Sunday
An expert writer on crime and corruption. His capacity topresent cross-currents of action reflects a considerable achievement. BritishBook News
Scotland Yard may never recover. Newman writes ina quasi-documentary style and there is a fearsome ring of truth about it. NewYork Times
The book is non-stop and briskly readable, the plotintriguing and the climax breathtaking. Publishers Weekly
A suspenseful page-turner that is riveting. BookChoice
An unashamedly unselfconscious bath in a wholly Englishunderworld. The Times
Imagination is more
important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein
BOOK ONE

Out of Africa
PROLOGUE

WATCHING HER WALK naked towards the bed, he saw she had thepoise of a ballet dancer and the hips of a Spanish chambermaid, but it was her eyes that had first caught his attention across the hotel bar-room. When they heldhis for that few seconds they offered promise he was compelled by, despite hiswife and daughter being asleep in their suite upstairs. Every such occasionfound him caught up in this familiar pattern when he was thrown forwardheadlong.
He reached out and took her hand and pulled her down on thebed with him. His mouth found hers and she responded. He kissed her harder. Hewas ready and would have willingly entered her and spent himself in an eternityof sensation, only women got the most from what he gave when he delayed hisresponse, and that was how he took his pleasure, even though there was a timeconstraint for both of them. Each having a partner elsewhere in the hotel madethe pursuit more exciting. Reaching down between her legs, he eased his index finger into her, growing more excited at the murmurs of pleasure from the gentle pressure he exerted. Shebegan to rise to him. He sensed her quickening pulse and heard her breathgetting shorter and knew she would soon achieve what she was there for. Easingher legs apart, he slid into her with a familiarity that suggested they haddone this together many times. She began to moan and was trying to hold herracing breath tight behind her clamped teeth, as if fearing someone beyond theroom would hear her. Breath forced itself from her and she cried out, the padsof her fingers pressing into his back as he drove harder and faster and deeperinto her. She arced off the bed in a violent spasm while he slammed her back down, againand again. Soon he too was lost, letting go and losing himself for a few briefmoments in exaltation when all that mattered in the entire world was thesensation they were sharing. Then it was over, his hunger, as random as that ofany drug addict, for the moment satisfied.
Each of them was experienced enough to shower afterwards andremove any trace of this interlude before saying goodbye. Yet somehow heslipped up, made his wifesuspicious.

The car rocketed along the country road, through themoonless dark, away from the holiday that was supposed to put everything right.
The sexual intruder changed this.
Why Ali had opened his laptop? Curiosity? Unease? Thestrange instinct of hers for reading distressed body language? Soon she hadbeen fanning the embers of his past affairs until they burned up all the oxygenin the room, making it difficult to breathe. Neither declarations of love norhis denial of this lover would reassure his wife all the while the woman was presenton his screen. History rose up to condemn him. The path of their marriage wasstrewn with many denials, easy lies and earnest declarations of love. Jakerecognised his need of sex was a sickness. Despite both his confessions andsubsequent therapy with Patrick Shilling, his one-time therapist, he came nocloser to cure. Did he want one? How long before he found himself waitingoutside his daughter s school, trying to pick up the older girls, using Zoe asbait?
Trying to shut out Ali svoice, he pressed his foot hard on the accelerator, wanting to speed away fromher inevitable hysteria. Death seemed like his only escape. All during this hisdaughter was leaning forward in the gap between their seats, pleading with themto stop arguing. Neither would. Neither could, his wife driven by a force aspowerful as that which drove him: she seemed determined to have the last word.They had arrived now in that familiar landscape beyond reason or control whereeach would be happy for the other to be dead or gone, yet neither could quitelet go.
You told me it was over, Jake.You promised it was finished. How many more lies are you going to tell?
I m not lying. It is over. I m not seeing her - her name eluding him.
How could I have been sostupid? It was stupid of me to imagine you ll change. You can t change. It s a disease.I should feel sorry for you, but all I want to do is kill you. I want to killmyself, she said, wrenching at his arm.
Don t, Mummy. Pleasedon t -
Zoe, sit back. Put onyour seatbelt, Jake shouted.
He knew he should stopthe car and comfort his daughter. Instead he pressed on, trying to ignore whatthis was doing to her. Why oh why did he do what he did? He knew that was anempty question with no desire beyond it to go there and look. Now he wantedthe journey finished, to get away from them both. When it was over he would goand see ‘that woman , as Ali called her. That woman who meant so little to him,only what she represented: a means of denying the heavy burden of commitment.
This was how histherapist explained it. The sexual compulsion was the means by which he avoidedthe responsibility of being a parent, a husband. Jake hated himself for that.He hated a lot of things about himself: being obsessed by sex; work-driven;unfeeling; uncaring. Little mattered to him as much as work and sex. Unless itwas sex and work. Both were expressions of his power. He needed to be in activepursuit of one or the other or he felt rudderless, inadequate. Those were hispredominan