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Brian “Bad” Phelan, a New Zealand policeman and bomb disposal expert, likes to live dangerously. Bad is an expert climber and caver and, while on vacation on the French/Italian border, he helps bring a body out of a rocky, wave-swept cove. Curiously, the dead woman bears striking similarities... read more

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  • “I was trapped in a pit, a narrow place in my life. I prayed to God for help, and God sent a devil to guide me. A beautiful devil, whose dusty incoherence I was able to see only by the daylight she shunned.”
  • “He said that there were some experiences that were too big. Those ones would, you'd think, stretch a person, make him bigger, if all out of shape. But instead, he said, they make a person get smaller.”

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  1. Elizabeth Knox (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0345457951
Page Count: 368

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