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Black Mad Wheel
Josh Malerman
Black Mad Wheel plunges us into the depths of psychological horror, where you can’t always believe everything you hear.THE DANES, the band once known as the ‘Darlings of Detroit’, are washed up and desperate to have another number one hit.When an agent from the US Army approaches them with an unusual offer, they believe it could be the answer to their inspiration drought. So, under the guidance of their front man, Philip Tonka, the Danes decide to embark on a harrowing journey through scorching African desert to track down the source of a strange and debilitating sound.In a Midwestern hospital, a nurse named Ellen tends to a patient recovering from a near-fatal accident. The circumstances that led to his injuries are mysterious, and his broken body heals at a remarkable rate. Ellen will do the impossible for this enigmatic patient as he reveals more about his accident with each passing day.BLACK MAD WHEEL plunges us into the depths of psychological horror, where you can’t always believe everything you hear.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780007530090
Ebook Edition © July 2017 ISBN: 9780007530083
Version: 2017-04-03
Dedication (#ulink_36379824-1c4b-5046-a467-598dc382be7e)
IN MAY OF 2012 the High Strung had just played the record release show for our album ¿Posible ó Imposible?, I’d just set the microphone back upon the stand, and Derek (drums) and I were stumbling out of the bar. From the bar’s shadows, an imp came, a gorgeous pair of bright green eyes and legs so long she must have been standing in the cellar. She spoke, too. “Do you have any more of that face paint?” Before the show I’d used a Sharpie on myself. Easy designs. “Yes,” I told her, reaching into the pocket of my jacket. But the imp had hands and she took hold of my face and rubbed it against her own.
Voilà. A painted face. And the beginning of something, too.
This book is for Allison Laakko, who got Black Mad Wheel piecemeal, spark by spark, as every night I relived for her the day’s excited writing. For that, there will always be a path, tracks, made by a wheel, perhaps, leading from her to me, then to the book and back to us again.
I like that.
We’ll forever know which way the wheels rolled.
I love you, Allison.
Contents
Cover (#u39a9ca29-6562-57ec-89f4-f2637c175688)
Title Page (#u2993ca33-cbbe-597f-84aa-5928e44cb413)
Copyright (#u97ceb624-585f-59d9-9880-cc6394c5d2f9)
Dedication (#uceced74b-d068-589b-9b1f-b9d45a79095d)
Part 1: F 1, 2, 3, 4 … (#u80d32b52-3398-5829-bf46-8a317e58f565)
Chapter 1 (#ue0763c64-7c2e-53b1-beab-cb0f936ccf80)
Chapter 2 (#u739ebe87-0be3-50d2-9a96-21ced38765f9)
Chapter 3 (#u51b4196d-6025-568c-bbac-3fe5caf9aae4)
Chapter 4 (#ua70dbe61-367d-5ea1-8716-05fd5ee87e21)
Chapter 5 (#ucddcc068-d409-560c-b5ee-f47a459d3984)
Chapter 6 (#u2190a822-be06-589f-a211-61cac1908f0c)
Chapter 7 (#u502b2495-6b99-53d5-989e-dde5dd9094d3)
Chapter 8 (#u5aebcc78-ceff-5d39-b0e2-ff0a2bd71e29)
Chapter 9 (#u12f146d8-4149-5cb7-8532-d23cb5b8bc05)
Chapter 10 (#u5968ef40-54cd-5797-8b60-cbf9837da72a)
Chapter 11 (#uad7cdb8a-23f7-5732-ab6b-e9c817d4574f)
Chapter 12 (#u474edb2f-6056-5fc4-937a-899195e5b2a8)
Chapter 13 (#ubff6e2d5-b46a-5d77-a7ad-1a83ac02b545)
Chapter 14 (#u1cc060c2-ca15-574b-9e52-7045fb35519b)
Chapter 15 (#u00d6cd10-8fb4-5fd8-a5f2-aeca660bbd69)
Chapter 16 (#u4e5b63c0-f40b-5a36-b63c-59f4963bb39d)
Chapter 17 (#u6ffa0e8a-3169-54fc-9672-ab578103f696)
Chapter 18 (#ufdb305c1-ef1d-56fc-81be-efb829eb8d2d)
Chapter 19 (#ud7c197e4-d36f-5ec9-a223-9d2a8e3538ab)
Chapter 20 (#u39183622-8a10-53df-9bd1-39380042f48f)
Chapter 21 (#u33d1fcdd-fc7a-5fa6-85a2-ae358ef66259)
Chapter 22 (#u04bd4be0-7340-51f2-bc51-541d19333e0e)
Chapter 23 (#u2848db1c-5463-5e61-811c-f16bd35d074b)
Chapter 24 (#ubf11744f-3782-5b4e-a0e3-7a7dd5d1415d)
Chapter 25 (#u2d01aea5-63a1-50f6-ad3e-1c99981cc06f)
Chapter 26 (#u8a8dfed0-eb54-5434-bb88-cf5fbee58aa8)
Chapter 27 (#udc502d23-7990-5e80-8e5e-aaa845dd0d9f)
Chapter 28 (#ue7afe87f-7ba4-5a22-b667-ed70fe212ae6)
Chapter 29 (#u02e27bf0-201d-5f6a-bff7-2ecde7eb0705)
Chapter 30 (#u956037d1-f93e-537f-b07e-2435fabf2133)
Chapter 31 (#u98c59d04-f0e8-5193-9e45-a6c9b7e12e7f)
Chapter 32 (#u682b97ad-f051-5319-a31c-6d2dd5d2b3cf)
Chapter 33 (#u2671d662-2699-56fb-bf65-5b9b4f7380bf)
Chapter 34 (#u690deaf9-ed69-58f8-9d10-352bfad40622)
Chapter 35 (#u32cb7331-693c-55db-bea5-795bd193c127)
Chapter 36 (#u02a52df5-4e8f-573b-91c0-424af49144cb)
Chapter 37 (#u0c5eec5b-95dd-50ea-a56f-d6d474832d43)
Chapter 38 (#u456c3d3b-b513-58a3-8b35-0aa65ddb6129)
Chapter 39 (#u29e32bff-95fa-563c-9180-ecbe1ada23a0)
Chapter 40 (#uff3ed822-f1d8-5ed3-a235-7494130a62a1)
Chapter 41 (#u5b4eb223-7cff-57fd-a15b-a3c6149295e5)
Chapter 42 (#u971f8392-1e07-5ea8-b8f4-2536a80373a8)
Chapter 43 (#u24c3f117-97cb-5c1b-ad7a-b3973e9310fc)
Chapter 44 (#u0541b663-1bb2-56fc-b852-f87031ea89ae)
Chapter 45 (#u532eaf7c-f800-5e38-8ad9-d2922f35dd9b)
Chapter 46 (#u03f8e9af-6637-55a6-9dcc-3af58ec031be)
Chapter 47 (#ue14a9c76-323f-5b17-ac0c-9ba3bcd2622c)
Chapter 48 (#u6bc0ae68-cb4c-59c7-90cd-4de28906c811)
Chapter 49 (#ue18db079-ee17-5428-9a30-6ea0289077f6)
Chapter 50 (#u1e13e580-1488-52bb-8201-7bf825a06ca8)
Chapter 51 (#u41d0436b-f32e-566d-a334-b2f3b8c6c0a9)
Part 2: Every Good Boy Does Fine (#ud2611530-6376-529e-8f68-68502f789bf2)
Chapter 52 (#u7fc60ccf-355d-51f9-8b25-89a3416f7dec)
Chapter 53 (#ucc7da3b4-9366-5544-93f3-6567caedef63)
Chapter 54 (#u4bf11001-23d0-5851-b26a-a2a9caa8eb13)
Chapter 55 (#u6cfcd350-9789-5f1e-8685-90ef89cb38e4)
Chapter 56 (#udeaee4bd-eeb6-56dc-bdff-3e987a67a582)
Chapter 57 (#uae6abdaa-18cc-5cba-8b71-a82ace15658f)
Chapter 58 (#u20c7d944-9792-5b91-8a3f-a5ba43951d7d)
Chapter 59 (#udd9082a1-7da6-5874-968e-ea2e1b157c1d)
Chapter 60 (#u9f30e332-15d8-5bf3-a8ce-635911e16231)
Chapter 61 (#u314ff459-0222-5c68-9392-807d0b9589da)
Acknowledgments (#ufb7a2586-7fb0-5346-a2a1-22bc94d4aa35)
About the Author (#u84e1ca7b-337a-50fc-919f-5375809764da)
Also by Josh Malerman (#uad2c161a-5159-5add-bf8d-dce16d81fdac)
About the Publisher (#uaf6ab9ce-cf41-5a71-8702-0c6987df648f)
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The patient is awake. A song he wrote is fading out, as if, as he slept, it played on a loop, the soundtrack of his unbelievable slumber.
He remembers every detail of the desert.
