I, Survivor

By: Andrew Yong

Narrated by: Adam Green

On Mardi Gras weekend in February of 2007 over 40 people were butchered beyond recognition in a lonely Louisiana bayou. The horrific tragedy would go on to be known as The Honey Island Swamp Massacre. Paramedic Andrew Yong was one of the first responders called to the scene over that fateful weekend and was mysteriously the only survivor of the mass killing spree that took place. Standing by his testimony that the murders were carried out by the ghost of local urban legend “Victor Crowley”, Yong would immediately become the only suspect in what has since been called “the trial of this century.” Though acquitted and exonerated across the board by a grand jury, Yong’s story has only spawned more questions than answers and even a decade later the world still considers him to in fact be “the Bayou Butcher.”

Now, on the 10th anniversary of The Honey Island Swamp Massacre, Yong shares his horrifying account of what really happened that weekend in disturbingly graphic detail. From his upbringing as an outcast...to his tumultuous marriage and divorce from television personality Sabrina Caruthers...to the hell that his life has become in the aftermath of “Victor Crowley”...Yong opens up about living through what is still considered by many to be the most brutal unsolved mass murder of all time. Narrated by Hatchet franchise creator and co-author of the book Adam Green.

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Pleasantly surprised!

I’m a huge fan of Adam Green and have loved his body of work for years. I finally got around to this book and I was incredibly surprised by it. This is a great companion to the Hatchet films, for sure. What surprised me though, was how much heart is in this book. Although a a work of fiction, I found myself forgetting that aspect. What Andrew Yong went through after the fallout of the Victor Crowley murders was insane and sad and terrible and could easily happen in real life. This book is so much more than just a great companion to the Hatchet films. I highly recommend it to all Hatchet (and Adam Green) fans

If you believe in "smart horror", Adam Green rules

I'm neither an Adam Green or a "Hatchet" superfan,....

.... but I AM a lifelong horror fan and I've watched the Hatchet movies finally. Finding this is a needle-in-a-haystack fluke since I was looked for "adam green" on audible , not Hatchet or Victory Crowley (I wonder if markeing it as a movie-tie-in/novelization would have helped it sell more). After watching the film "Victor Crowley", finding this prompted me to rewatch the entire film series. While the character of Andrew Yong isn't in the series until Hatchet III, Green (the author/narrator) manages to properly summarize and build-upon the first two films, creating a TRUE novelization of the "Hatchet Trilogy", Slasher horror has never held up well to scruitny, but the best portion of this book is an actual COURTROOM DRAMA, with twists and turns that are shocking even to fans who actually watched the events unfold in real time. Adam Green not only understands the character enough to understand him, but at times, I forgot that it wasn't actor Parry Shen playing this role. Green can write, screenwrite, act, Narrate, and direct! Bottom line, this is one of the absolute BEST horror movie tie-ins ever made. Written and read by the writer/director of the series, this is as canon as the film series and develops the universe and the character of Andrew Yong as well as anything could be done.
I'm now a Hatchet and Adam Green superfan. Mr. Green, you took slasher monsters and showed the world why fans have always defended them as legitimate stories.

one of the best biographies out there!

it was hearbreaking to listen to the poor mans life story. so inspiring. unfortunately this is the only way to learn anything about the Honey Island Sawmp massacre. Google turns up nothing.

Kept my attention

The story started slow but had me searching for what happened next. Loved every second into the suspense horror, and the extra animation put into the account bring it to life. I enjoyed every moment

Very good!

if you're not a fan of the Hatchet films you most likely won't understand everything in this book but as a Hatchet fan myself I loved this book all the way through! It was pretty sad and real, which was unexpected. it definitely takes a different tone than the Hatchet films but it kept me intrigued the entire time!

daaaaadddyyyy....

Check this out if you are a fan of the Hatchet films, it was beautifully written, excellently performed, and adds a lot to the mythos of Victor Crowley.

Emotional

A very emotional journey through the eyes of Crowley's lone survivor.
Justice for Yong. Crowley lives.

It is an actual book! And good!

Thought to be just a movie tie-in. A souvenir for signings... but I just finished this audiobook and guess what? It’s good! Well paced, compelling, strong relatable main character. Hope Adam Green considers another novel/audiobook soon. Good narration too. The memoir aspect didn’t require character voices. Adam did a great job narrating this mostly first-person text. Now time to re-watch all four Hatchet films.

I love Hatchet. I love Adam Green. I hate this book.

I picked this up eagerly thinking it would be a fleshed out novelisation of the movie with more details and character.

It is not.

In fact the details of the movie are so quickly rehashed in this book that had I not seen the movies I would have been left very clueless as to what happen.

The entire book is a very slow, very long, very depressing account of Andrew (the fictional author) and how his horrible wife, Sabrina, used him to further her career as a tv host.

Sabrina is cast as more of a monster than Victor Crowley (the serial killer of the series) through out.

I struggled to finish this book. The story is boring and it adds absolutely nothing not at all to the Hatchet canon. The main character is already a bit of “a loser” in the films, but is painted as thee biggest door mat to everyone he encounters. He is made to be so pathetic that you can’t even root for him.

The narration is flat, but I doubt even had a professional read the book would the material been any better.