ALSO BY PAUL CLEAVE
Five Minutes Alone
Joe Victim
The Laughterhouse
Collecting Cooper
Blood Men
Cemetery Lake
The Killing Hour
The Cleaner
We hope you enjoyed reading this Atria Books eBook.
Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Atria Books and Simon & Schuster.
or visit us online to sign up at
eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com
An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2015 by Paul Cleave
Jacket Design by Darren Haggar
Jacket Photographs © Rene Keith/Getty Images (Blood Splat);
© Jan Stromme/Getty Images (Broken Pen)
Author Photograph by Martin Hunter
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information, address Atria Books Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
First Atria Books hardcover edition August 2015
and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or
[email protected]
.
The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information, or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at
www.simonspeakers.com
.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-1-4767-7917-1
ISBN 978-1-4767-7918-8 (ebook)
Chapter 28: Day who gives a Fuck?
Chapter 43: WMD Plus Two Hours
Chapter 53: I Don’t know I. Don’t know
Chapter 57: Day two without Sandra
Chapter 61: Day Another Something
Chapter 67: Don’t Trust Hans A short story by Henry Cutter