The Wrong Thing (Switchblade)
Glimpsed on the outskirts of the Southwest's urban badlands by people who occasionally think he is a ghost responsible for unsolved crimes, a lonely young man with a love for cooking and reading longs to pursue an everyday life with a beautiful but damaged woman, an effort that is complicated by violent realities from his past. By the award-winning author of The Book of Man. Original.
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They call him the Kid. He’s a killer, a dark Latino legend of the Southwest’s urban badlands, “a child who terrifies adults.” They speak of him in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him. Others say he doesn’t exist, a phantom blamed for every unsolved act of violence, a ghost who haunts every blood-splattered crime scene.But he is real. He’s a young man with a love of cooking and reading, an abiding loneliness and an appetite for violence. He is a cipher, a projection of the dreams and nightmares of people ignored by Phoenix’s economic boom…and a contemporary outlaw in search of an ordinary life. Love brings him the chance at a new life in the form of Vanjii, a beautiful, damaged woman. But try as he might to abandon the past, his past won’t abandon him. The Kid fights back in the only way he knows – and sets in motion a tragic sequence of events that lead him to an explosive conclusion shocking in its brutality and tenderness.
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