The Road to the Dead
By Kevin Brooks
On a storm-ravaged night, a 19-year-old girl is kidnapped, raped, and killed. Three days later, her two younger brothers set out in search of her murderer. Cole, 17, is a dark-eyed devil who doesn't care if he lives or dies, while Ruben, 14, is a strange child who sometimes, inexplicably, experiences sensations above and beyond his own. This is the story of the boys' journey from their half-gypsy home on a London junk lot to the ghostly moors of Devon, where they hope and fear to find the truth about their sister's death. It's a long road, cold and hard and violent. It's THE ROAD OF THE DEAD.

Excerpt:
The traffic around Paddington was all snarled up, and by the time I’d gotten out of the taxi and bought a ticket and scurried around the concourse trying to find the right platform, it was almost eleven thirty-five.  I got on the train just as the guard was shutting all the doors.  It was fairly busy, but not overcrowded.  I waited while all the other passengers were sorting themselves out – looking for seats, stowing their luggage, aimlessly wandering around – and then, as the train pulled away from the platform, I started looking for Cole.



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