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If You Go Down to the Woods: The most powerful and emotional debut thriller of 2018!. Seth Adams C.
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isbn 9780008280246
Автор произведения Seth Adams C.
Жанр Ужасы и Мистика
Издательство HarperCollins
If You Go Down to the Woods
SETH C. ADAMS
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
Copyright © Adam Contreras 2018
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Ebook Edition © April 2018 ISBN: 9780008280246
Version: 2018-01-24
This story is about family, friends, and a good dog (which qualifies as both!), and so it is to these I dedicate the novel.
To Mom and Dad, for allowing—and encouraging—their weird son to read whatever he wanted.
To my own group of Outsiders that enriched my life throughout the school years. We may have never fought off assassins and gangsters, but sometimes just surviving life is a fight all its own, made a bit easier with a good group of pals.
To Sheba, Rusty, Outlaw, and Banjo: great dogs, and even better friends.
Table of Contents
Part Two: The Car and the Collector
1.
This is the night. These are the times.
I heard these words for the first time from a killer the summer I met the Outsiders’ Club. Years passed before I finally understood them and, by then, everyone—my friends, my family, my dog—were long gone: some to the dirt that eventually claims us all, others to the remote reaches of time and memory.
The promise the Outsiders’ Club made to each other had a part to play in the way things went down. No doubt about it. But much of it was just life itself, and things beyond our control. Yet I still wonder how it all would have turned out had other choices been made, different roads taken. This