I've written about all this before so I'll be brief. Marc Jaffe, who'd bought the novel, his first purchase as the new editor-in-chief there, took me aside one day and said, this book is going to make you rich, son. This is the guy who wrote that crazy fucking thing about the cannibals. I'd be walking with my editor and people would peer out at me from their cubicles, smiling and shaking their heads. But practically the whole damn house had read the book. That this was eventually to be its downfall had not yet occurred to anybody. In 1980 nobody had seen a book with quite so many teeth. When Ballantine bought Off Season it created a lot of in-house buzz precisely because it was so ferocious. And you might have asked yourself, so what in hell was this guy doing for three years? Sitting back counting his bucks?Ī good part of that time I was writing the novel you now have in hand. Truly attentive readers of mine, I mean real out-and-out detail-type-persons, may have noted that between 1981, when I published my first book, Off Season, and 1984, when I published my second - a little one-hundred-ninety-four-page thing called Hide and Seek - there was not a peep out of Jack Ketchum anywhere. "If I'd the courage I would make my way home. Try any title from CROSSROAD PRESS – use the Coupon Code FIRSTBOOK for a one time 20% savings! We have a wide variety of eBook and Audiobook titles available. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return the vendor of your choice and purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with.
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