Bad Move

Zusatztext "Humorous ... Fast-Paced.... the suburbs turn out to be no guarantee of personal safety." -- Booklist Praise for Last Resort : "Last Resort is a moving! bittersweet and naturally funny memoir of a young man's coming of age." -- London Free Press "Engaging...Barclay writes with admirable openness about his dysfunctional family." -- Maclean's "Barclay's straightforward and unadorned prose...lets him subtly convey the crazy-quilt way that life happens: teenage fun bumps into grownup sadness! loved ones can turn troubled or troubling...Barclay's style may seem simple! but the effects he achieves are anything but." -- January Magazine "[Barclay] manages to capture something elusive; the magical! almost ineffable wonder of childhood! where the sense of freedom offered by a nine-horsepower boat! a summer romance or the first serious conversation with an adult offers a promise of life which one rarely shakes off in later years." -- National Post ? Informationen zum Autor Linwood Barclay  is a former columnist for the  Toronto Star . He is the #1 internationally bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels, including  The Accident, Never Look Away, Fear the Worst, Too Close to Home,  and  No Time for Goodbye . Multiple titles   have been optioned for film. Klappentext In one day! Zack Walter turns his model life into a disaster! so! he must do some serious damage control before his wife gets home from work. Whoever said the 'burbs were boring will think again after laughing through this hilarious page-turner. 1 for years, I envied my friend Jeff Conklin, who, at the age of eleven, found a dead guy. We were in Grade 6, in Mr. Findley's class, and most days we walked home together, Jeff and I, but this particular day my mom picked me up after school not only because it was raining pretty hard, but also because I had a checkup booked with Dr. Murphy, our family dentist. Jeff didn't have the kind of mom who cared about picking him up at school when it was raining, so he struck out for home, no umbrella, no raincoat, stomping through all the puddles in his sneakers. At one point, the heavens opened up and the rain came down so hard the streets flooded. I remember as we were pulling into the dentist's parking lot you couldn't see past the windshield, even with the wipers going full blast, thwacking back and forth on our 1965 Dodge Polara. It was like we weren't in a car, but in the Maid of the Mist, right under Niagara Falls. Meanwhile, the worst of the rain had let up a bit as Jeff, now as wet as if he'd done ten laps at the community pool, rounded the corner onto Gilmour Street. Up ahead there was a blue Ford Galaxie pulled up close to the curb, and stretched out on the pavement next to it, on his stomach, was a man. At first Jeff thought it was a kid, but kids didn't wear nice raincoats or dress pants or fancy shoes. It was a very small man. Jeff approached slowly, then stopped. The man's short legs were stretched out into the street, shoes angled awkwardly, and from where Jeff stood, it looked like his head was cut off at the curb, which really creeped Jeff out. He took a few more steps, the world engulfed in the sound of rain, and shouted, "Mister?" The little man said nothing, and didn't move. "Mister? You okay?" Now Jeff was standing right over him, and he could see that the man's chest was positioned over a storm drain where water was coursing around him and disappearing. His right arm and head were wedged into the drain. Now Jeff could see why it appeared that the man's head had been cut off. "Mister?" he shouted one last time. Jeff confided to me that he wet his pants then, but it was...

Product details

• Authors: Linwood Barclay
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.04.2005
• EAN: 9780553587043
• ISBN: 978-0-553-58704-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 176 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Bantam Books; Zack Walker; Zack Walker
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense