The Wrong Thing

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They call him the Kid. He's a killer, a dark Latino legend of the Southwest's urban badlands, 'a child who terrifies adults'. Some say he doesn't exist, a phantom blamed for every unsolved act of violence, a ghost who haunts every blood-splattered crime scene. But he is real. He's a young man with a love of cooking and reading, an abiding loneliness and an appetite for violence. Love brings him the chance at a new life in the form of Vanjii, a beautiful, damaged woman. But try as he might to abandon the past, his past won't abandon him...

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"Graham's words are raw and gritty, and his observations unrelenting and brutally honest."
--Booklist

"Graham's stories are peopled with the desperate and the mad. A... master."
--The Times

"Vivid, almost lurid, prose...a talented author."
--Time Out (London)

Author Bio

Barry Graham is a Zen monk and an award-winning, internationally acclaimed author and journalist. He has written for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, and his works include Before, The Book of Man, and Get Out as Early as You Can. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.