_DESCRIPTION_: Bad Man: A Novel - Dathan Auerbach - 2018 By: Dathan Auerbach Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 07-08-2018 Language: English Genre: Crime & Thrillers, Suspense Publisher: Random House Audio Format: mp3 64/44.1 stereo Publisher's Summary Reddit horror sensation Dathan Auerbach delivers a devilishly dark novel about a young boy who goes missing, and the brother who won't stop looking for him. Eric disappeared when he was three years old. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took. His brother was gone. Vanished right into the sticky air of the Florida Panhandle. They say you've got only a couple days to find a missing person. Forty-eight hours to conduct searches, knock on doors, and talk to witnesses. Two days to tear the world apart if there's any chance of putting yours back together. That's your window. That window closed five years ago, leaving Ben's life in ruins. He still looks for his brother. Still searches while his stepmother sits and waits and whispers for Eric, refusing to leave the house that Ben's father can no longer afford. Now 20 and desperate for work, Ben takes a night stock job at the only place that will have him: the store that blinked Eric out of existence. Ben can feel that there's something wrong there. With the people. With his boss. With the graffitied baler that shudders and moans and beckons. There's something wrong with the air itself. He knows he's in the right place now. That the store has much to tell him. So, he keeps searching. Keeps looking for his baby brother while missing the most important message of all. That he should have stopped looking. ©2018 Dathan Auerbach (P)2018 Random House Audio Critic Reviews "If you think The Shining set in a grocery store, you're not far off.... Auerbach is magnificent with atmosphere, able to conjure dread from a huge array of normally nonthreatening places. This is a horror author to watch very, very closely." (Booklist) "Dark and disturbing.... Readers will be reminded of the young Stephen King." (Publishers Weekly) "This nasty little slice of Southern gothic...is a heady, puzzling, and oddly gripping exercise in depicting a small town as a macabre place filled with everyday horrors ranging from a child's stuffed animal to a gruesome industrial accident.... Auerbach [keeps] readers on the edges of their seats for the whole ride." (Kirkus Reviews) 24/7 Seedbox Support |