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Dark Ride

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Twenty-one-year-old Hardy ‘Hardly’ Reed is a minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park. When he notices two children with signs of abuse, he reports it to Child Protective Services, but when they fail to take action, he takes it upon himself. The situation is worse than Hardly expected. The abusive father who has been hurting these children is a lawyer who secretly runs a violent drug-dealing operation.
Faced with a different version of himself than he has ever known, Hardly refuses to give up. But his commitment to saving these kids from further harm might end up getting the kids, and Hardly himself, killed.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Lou
Berney

Lou Berney is the author of four previous novels, Gunshot Straight, Whiplash River, November Road, and multiple prize-winning The Long and Faraway Gone. November Road was awarded the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Lou Berney is the author of four previous novels, Gunshot Straight, Whiplash River, November Road, and multiple prize-winning The Long and Faraway Gone. November Road was awarded the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Dark Ride was a finalist for fiction in the 2024 Oklahoma Book Awards competition.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
19/09/2023
Country
United States
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, Harper Collins

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