Category: Leviathan

Robert McCammon’s Leviathan, the tenth and last book in the Matthew Corbett series, is now available in trade hardcover (Lividian Publications), ebook (Open Road), and audiobook (Audible) formats!

These are the covers:

The trade hardcover from Lividian Publications

 

The ebook from Open Road

 

The Audible audiobook

The Open Road media ebook edition of Leviathan can now be pre-ordered from your favorite vendor. The book will be released on December 3, 2024. Prices vary; based on previous releases, they will likely change by publication date, but that’s just a guess.

The ebook features different cover artwork from the Lividian trade hardcover.

Pre-order the Leviathan ebook from Amazon US, B&N, Kobo, and Apple.

Alabama Booksmith has announced the book launch event and signing for Leviathan, the final book in Robert McCammon’s Matthew Corbett series! The event will take place on Saturday, December 7, 2024, at the Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, AL.

From their event page:

Come meet international best selling Robert McCammon as he discusses the final volume of the Matthew Corbett series.

While limited seating remains, reserve your ticket to hear Robert McCammon discuss his new book. One ticket is complimentary with the purchase of each copy of LEVIATHAN from the Alabama Booksmith. Tickets must be requested with book purchase.

No reservations are needed for the signing line which begins at 1:00.

Important note #1: We only carry hardbacks, but are making a policy change for one day only! Since many of Mr. McCammons’s previously titles are only available in soft cover, we are giving his fans the opportunity to own signed copies. Pre-orders are accepted beginning today. Soft covers will not be available after December 7, 2024.

You may purchase signed copies of these sixteen soft covers, the new book, and all hardbacks in print to pick up at the event, pick up at the store later, or carefully wrapped and mailed worldwide by Clicking Here.

Important note #2: If you are unable to attend in person, you may watch Robert McCammon’s presentation on Facebook Live at 12:00 noon CST.

See you December 7, 2024!

Audible has listed their audiobook edition of Robert McCammon’s Leviathan for pre-orders! The book is the last book in the Matthew Corbett series, and the audiobook will once again be narrated by the incomparable Edoado Ballerini!

The audiobook will be released on December 3, 2024, which is also the release date for the trade hardcover and the ebook (details for the ebooks are TBD).

Pre-order the Leviathan audiobook from Audible

Order Leviathan from Lividian Publications
Order a signed trade hardcover from Alabama Booksmith
Order the trade hardcover from Amazon, B&N, Amazon UK

Lividian Publications is proud to announce the trade hardcover edition of Leviathan by Robert McCammon, the epic conclusion to his acclaimed Matthew Corbett series.

This beautiful hardcover edition features exclusive Vincent Chong full-color artwork for the dust jacket and will be printed in a very limited First Edition/First Printing run that will only be available from us and our regular “smaller” retailers like Sub Press, Camelot, CD, etc.

Big box stores and Amazon will get a POD hardcover because that worked out extremely well for the last two titles in this series.

Pre-order Leviathan from Lividian Publications

As usual, signed copies of Leviathan can be ordered from the Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, AL:

Pre-order Leviathan from the Alabama Booksmith

Order the trade hardcover from Amazon, B&N, Amazon UK

N.B. Ebook and audiobook editions will also be published December 3, 2024. More information on those releases will be available closer to publication date.

Here is the information from the product page on the Lividian website:

Lividian Publications is proud to be publishing a trade hardcover edition of Leviathan by Robert McCammon, the epic conclusion to his acclaimed Matthew Corbett series. This beautiful hardcover edition features exclusive Vincent Chong full-color artwork for the dust jacket and will be printed in a very limited First Edition/First Printing run.

Please Note: there will be a signed & slipcased Limited Edition like the previous titles in this series, but it won’t be shipping until next year, so we’re holding off on taking orders for that edition until it is closer to publication. There is not a wait list at this time.

Retail Price: $39.50
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Page Count: 424 (estimated)

Production Features for the FIRST PRINTING only:
• Full-color dust jacket artwork by Vincent Chong (different from the Limited Edition)
• Offset printed on an acid-free archival quality paper stock
• Hot foil stamping on the spine
• Smyth-sewn to create a more durable binding
• Twine head and tail bands
• Colored endpapers

About the Book:
It is August of 1704, and Matthew Corbett and his companions have narrowly escaped the island of Golgotha and are recuperating in the town of Alghero on the northwestern coast of Sardinia, currently under Spanish rule. Hudson Greathouse is at his limits, both mentally and physically, after their harrowing ordeal.

Their respite is short-lived when the Spanish authorities learn of their abandoned quest for Brazio Valeriani and the mirror created by his father, Ciro. This mirror is rumored to have the power to summon demons from the underworld, and the Spanish authorities are eager to possess it. Consequently, a professional witch-hunter and soldiers are assigned to accompany Matthew, Hudson, Professor Fell, and Cardinal Black as they resume their quest.

Their only lead on Brazio’s whereabouts takes them to Venice. Unbeknownst to them, members of an established crime family also seek the mirror for their own nefarious purposes, and a betrayal from within Matthew’s cohorts puts the family on their trail. The journey presents numerous challenges, including a close encounter with the French-Dutch war, forcing Hudson to confront personal demons from his past and putting the entire group in grave danger.

As they race towards the mirror with multiple competing agendas for its future, Matthew finds help and support from unexpected places. The quest will push him to his limit once again, cause him to question his own beliefs about what is real and what is fantasy, and ultimately what his future holds.

Leviathan is the final installment in bestselling author Robert McCammon’s acclaimed series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, a brave and resourceful “problem-solver.” Matthew aims to solve the mystery of the mirror once and for all and end his entanglement with Professor Fell, so he can return to New York to start his life with Berry Grigsby. However, this ultimate test of his wits, cunning, and ingenuity might prove to be more than even Matthew Corbett can handle.

Robert McCammon has finished writing Leviathan, the final book in the Matthew Corbett series! He’s very proud of how it turned out, and he thinks you’ll enjoy it, too.

If all goes well, the trade hardcover (Lividian Publications), ebook (Open Road Media), and audiobook (Audible) editions of Leviathan will be published before the end of 2024! He literally just finished the book a week ago, so it’s too early for any more definite dates yet. Stay tuned!

Robert McCammon

Hello, all! Yes, it’s that time of year. Fast approaching is Halloween, and also fast approaching is the publication of the 9th Matthew Corbett volume, Seven Shades Of Evil.

But there are eight shades in the book, and I’ll explain in a bit.

Seven Shades is a departure for the series, in that it’s a collection of shorter stories drawn from earlier events in the careers of Matthew, Hudson, Katherine and Minx. A question you might have is, ‘Why did you want to do this when the end volume is really right upon us?’

Well, a good question and the answer is: The last book in the series—Leviathan—will complete Matthew’s story. It’s now or never for these shorter but I think no less involving tales to be told. As much as I’ve enjoyed writing the series, getting to know the characters and living vicariously in what I consider a fascinating period of history, after Leviathan it will be time for me to move on and do some other projects ahead.

I do promise that Leviathan will be everything you hope it will be. Promise made. My plan (and hope) is that Leviathan will be published in October of 2024, but I can’t promise that due to unforeseen circumstances of life and the publishing business. But I will say that around that time, again, is my plan and hope.

As for Seven Shades Of Evil, I had originally planned to do this after The River Of Souls but I felt it unfair to leave readers hanging for such a long stretch after that book. Therefore…now or never for these shorter pieces, but consider them as appetizers for Leviathan because one story holds a clue as to the identity of the final—and certainly worst—villains that Matthew has faced in his dangerous episodes.

Coming from
Lividian Publications,
October 24, 2023

The stories in Seven Shades Of Evil are:

‘The Four Lamplighters’: Matthew and Hudson sign on as bodyguards to a band of travelling musicians and wind up with mud on their faces.

‘Night Ride’: Matthew finds himself in the middle of an age-old war.

‘The House At The Edge Of The World’: Hudson learns that a cyclops is not only a creature of mythology.

‘The Scorpion’s Eye’: Minx is on the hunt for a stolen jewel with a fantastic and deadly power.

‘The Pale Pipesmoker’: Katherine and Minx come to the aid of a man who’s been challenged to a duel by a cunning killer.

‘Skeleton Crew’: Katherine helps an ex-slave being tormented by a band of marauding skeletons on horseback.

‘Wandering Mary’: A ghost trying to lure a wealthy man to his death takes Matthew to a haunted castle.

And, the eighth, because I couldn’t leave out another character who’s been through so much…

‘Incident On The Lady Barbara’: A disappearance at sea puts Berry in the position of being a problem-solver.

I’m very excited about this book and so glad to be able to show some of the other characters in action. I was particularly glad to be able to see what Katherine can do when she’s on her own. (She’s actually pretty good with a pistol!)

So, there you have it. That time of year. And speaking of the time of year, on the 28th of October I’ll be at the Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham where I’ll be reading from Seven Shades, signing books (whatever you’d like me to sign), and talking about Leviathan. I hope you can make it!

Do not despair of Matthew’s future! I can promise also that the ending of Leviathan will be a proper ‘beginning’ for Matthew…and more than that I cannot say…but I might say more on the 28th of October!

Thanks again for your readership and continued support, and I hope this time of year is one of your happiest.

Best Wishes.

Robert McCammon, June 2021

Hello, all!

I finished The King of Shadows toward the end of April. Since then I’ve been resting up because as I think you’ll understand when you read the book, it was quite a lot to put together. For one thing, it took me a while to refine what began simply as a ‘what-if?’ idea that at first seemed so outlandish and ‘out there’ it couldn’t possibly work. Well, I’m happy to say it did, but not without a lot of thrashing and gnashing. Matthew and Company came through for me once again. I’m pleased to say it’s a hefty book too, running about 560 pages.

I wanted The King of Shadows to be completely different from anything that had come before, and I wanted it to have that ‘weird’ and ‘otherworldly’ edge. Also I became very interested in the backstories of both Cardinal Black and Maccabeus DeKay…how did they become what they are? So you’ll find in The King of Shadows the stories of how the young Adam Black became the infamous Cardinal, and how “Mac” DeKay devolved from being a wealthy young man faithful to his father and involved in the sport of horse racing to being the scarred—and soul-scarred—and masked creature of the ‘present’.

Another thing I wanted to play with was the idea that instead of a human antagonist, a physical place could be antagonistic. Thus you’ll find in The King of Shadows a beautiful Mediterranean island called Golgotha that hides a multitude of secrets, and puts both Matthew and Hudson at risk like never before…but maybe not in the way you would expect!

Next up will be a book of seven short stories involving Matthew, Hudson, Minx Cutter, and Katherine Herrald titled Seven Shades of Evil. Some of these stories have previously appeared in other places, but I believe there will be at least three new ones and two of those will be “novelette” length. Seven Shades of Evil will be sort of a compendium of various “problems” Matthew and Company are called upon to solve during Matthew’s career with the Herrald Agency—these being done in the time between the spans of the regular books—and we’ll begin with one of the earliest events and end with one in his later life.

And so we are moving toward Leviathan, the last book in the Matthew Corbett series. It will be set in Italy and will involve—must involve—the worst of the worst that Matthew has yet to face. As someone from the realm of the past tells Matthew in The King of Shadows: “I have a feeling that Professor Fell will seem as a kindly old uncle bouncing baby Corbett on his knee when you meet who’s waiting for you in the future. Because take it from me, my boy…the worst is yet to be.”

You can take that as truth, because the person who tells this to Matthew is none other than Tyranthus Slaughter, returned from the dead.

So…on we go!

Publication of The King of Shadows is probably not going to be until early in 2022, but I hope you’ll feel the wait was worth it when you read the book. Until then, I’ll be working on Seven Shades of Evil and putting Leviathan together.

I hope everyone has a happy summer, and thank you again for your readership and support. I’m certain that in some other realm Matthew and his companions wholeheartedly thank you as well!

Best Wishes,
Robert McCammon