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Now he’s rewriting their fate.
Kaelan Moriarty Sato was the most brilliant engineer at Osaka Industrial Systems.
Half Japanese. Half Irish. Quiet. Ruthlessly intelligent. A rising star whose ideas earned the company millions.
But genius breeds resentment.
Five coworkers—men he trusted—decide Kaelan’s success has gone too far. Lured to an abandoned tar processing factory under the promise of a celebration, Kaelan is drugged, beaten, and thrown into a vat of boiling tar.
Left to die.
But death never comes.
Against all odds, Kaelan survives.
Scarred beyond recognition and rebuilt with titanium prosthetics of his own design, he disappears into the shadows of the industrial underworld. Months later, a series of brutal and highly engineered killings begin tearing through Osaka.
Each victim shares one thing in common.
They were there that night.
The media calls the mysterious killer “The Tar Man.”
To the police, he’s a calculating vigilante leaving behind mechanical traps and impossible crime scenes.
To the city, he’s becoming something else entirely.
A legend born from fire, metal, and revenge.
Detective Tanaka is the only man who begins to uncover the truth behind the killings—but by the time he realizes what really happened at the tar factory, Kaelan’s list of targets is nearly complete.
Now the final reckoning is coming.
And the man who started everything is about to face the one victim who refused to die.
Dark, cinematic, and relentlessly intense, The Tar Man is a brutal revenge thriller about betrayal, survival, and the terrifying cost of justice.
Once you try to burn a man alive…
you better make sure he’s dead.
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About the author
Killian Flinn writes dark, suspense-driven fiction that blends psychological tension, brutal revenge, and cinematic storytelling. His novels explore the fragile line between victim and monster, often following characters pushed beyond the limits of survival. Known for gritty atmospheres and unforgettable antiheroes, Flinn’s stories pull readers into dangerous worlds where justice is rarely simple and the past never stays buried.
