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Fresh Pick | EXPIRATION DATE by Duane Swierczynski
Fresh Pick / September 21, 2011

April 2010 On Sale: March 30, 2010 Featuring: Mickey Wade 224 pages ISBN: 0312363400 EAN: 9780312363406 Trade Size $13.99  Add to Wish List Thriller Crime, Mystery Buy at Amazon.com Best Original Paperback 2011 Anthony Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski Make a wrong turn in this neighborhood and you’re history Recently unemployed journalist Mickey Wade lucked into a rent-free apartment – his sick grandfather’s place. The only problem: it’s in a lousy neighborhood – the one where Mickey grew up, in fact. The one he was so desperate to escape. But now he’s back. Dead broke. And just when he thinks he’s reached rock bottom, Mickey wakes up in the past. Literally. At first he thinks it’s a dream. All of the stores he remembered from his childhood, the cars, the rumble of the elevated train. But as he digs deeper into the past, searching for answers about the grandfather he hardly knows, Mickey meets the twelve-year-old kid who lives in the apartment below. The kid who will grow up to someday murder Mickey’s father. Previous Picks

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