This Dark Road to Mercy: A Novel (28 page)

WILEY CASH
is the award-winning and
New York times
bestselling author of
A Land More Kind Than Home.
He is from North Carolina and has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He has held residency positions at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. He and his wife live in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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COPYRIGHT

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living dead, is entirely coincidental.

THIS DARK ROAD TO MERCY
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FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-208825-3 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-0-06-232528-0 (international edition)

EPUB Edition February 2014 ISBN 9780062088277

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