Redemption Road: A Novel (55 page)
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Authors: John Hart
Tags: #Fiction, #Thrillers, #Suspense, #Crime, #General
She hugged him until it was time to stop. “Are you ready?”
He nodded.
“Can you tell me which way is west?”
He pointed at the yellow sky.
“Are you hungry?”
“Yes, ma’am,” he said. “Very.”
* * *
The drive back was slower, gentler; and they talked a lot as she drove, about cactus and tarantulas and a dapple-gray mare with a brother for sale two valleys south. The days were warm for March, and long; and the boy stared often through the window. Elizabeth wondered at his thoughts and guessed they were of a father he might never see, and of a girl who might just make a sister. He grew quieter as the green fell away, and rivers dwindled. But, there was nothing wrong with silence, and he was wise to know as much so young. So, she left him to the fullness of his thoughts and led him into the desert. It was another day, another life, and family waited beyond the mountain.
ALSO BY
JOHN HART
JOHN HART
is the author of four
New York Times
bestsellers,
The King of Lies
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Down River
,
The Last Child
, and
Iron House
. The only author in history to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel consecutively, John has also won the Barry Award, the Southern Independent Bookseller’s Award for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in more than seventy countries. You can sign up for email updates
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Contents
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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REDEMPTION ROAD
. Copyright © 2016 by John Hart. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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First Edition: May 2016