The Last Word

Emma Carpenter and her golden retriever guard an old house on the beach. Her only contact with people is her mysterious old neighbour Deek and (via text message) the owner of the house Jules. When Emma reads a crappy but scary horror novel by a certain H. G. Kane and writes a one-star review of it, drawing her into an online feud with the author himself. Soon after, disturbing things begin to happen in the night. It can't be a coincidence. That the writer was stalking her? As Emma researches Kane's life and work, she learns that he has published sixteen other books, all with similarly sadistic stories. But who is it? How did he find her? And what is he capable of? Quotes / exclamations from the book cover: IF YOU GIVE THIS BOOK JUST ONE STAR, YOU COULD END UP DEAD. No one out here can hear you scream... From the author of the bestselling action novel No Escape. TAYLOR ADAMS studied film and screenwriting at Eastern Washington University. He is the author of the critically acclaimed bestselling books No Escape (which was published in 31 other languages besides Czech and was made into the film No Exit), At Range and Bridge of Suicides. NINA HORAKOVA (1988) She was born in Olomouc. She got a taste for theatre at the age of six, when she started performing in the Ptensky Children's Theatre in the first grade of primary school. During her studies at the grammar school she joined the drama club and was a member of the Point amateur theatre in Prostějov, she also started to sing actively. In 2012 she graduated from the DAMU in Prague with a degree in drama acting. She is currently a member of the Original Movement Theatre Veselé skoky (Chabrus line, Ve stanici nelze and Raven) and performs at Divadlo Na Fidlovačce in the plays Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, Grandma, The House of Four Lecturers and The Bride. At the Kalich Theatre you can see her in the role of Frenchy in the musical Grease. He is involved in dancing, singing and dubbing. VASIL FRIDRICH (1976) After graduating from the DAMU, he got an engagement at the Švanda Theatre, in 2002-2005 he worked at the Central Bohemian Theatre in Kladno. After twelve years of engagements at the Prague City Theatres (ABC and ROKOKO), he went freelance in 2017. He hosts the talk show Noční Mikrofórum on the Czech Radio station Dvojka and also works in the field of radio drama and recording audiobooks. He has starred in the two-part TV film Methanol, as well as in the films The Hourly Husband, The Tiger Theory and the TV series Specialists and Street. Audiobook: Taylor Adams: THE LAST WORD | Translation by Irena Steinerová | Read by Nina Horáková and Vasil Fridrich | Directed by Jan Drbohlav | Sound, editing and mastering by Karolína Škápíková | Music by Pavel Holý | Filmed in the studio of S Pro Alfa CZ | Production by S Pro Alfa CZ | Supervision by Alena Brožová | Published by Euromedia Group, a. does - Témbr, in August 2024. The recording is based on a book: THE LAST WORD Copyright © 2023 by Taylor Adams | Translated by Irena Steinerová | Cover photo Valentino Sani / Arcangel | Published by Euromedia Group, a. does - in the Calibre edition in 2024.