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The Road of the Dead | Kevin Brooks

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Ruben Ford has always felt things. Other people’s thoughts, other people’s feelings… It makes him different, but he’s never minded it, really. Until the night he’s alone in the backseat of a car in the rain, and alone in the dark on a deserted moor with his sister Rachel, about to be dead.

The police don’t seem to know what they’re doing when it comes to investigating Rachel’s death. Ruben’s brother, Cole, has taken to assaulting the press, and his mother just wants to be able to bury her daughter. With their father in jail, the boys knows it’s up to them.

Cole sets his mind to going out to where it all happened, and following in Rachel’s footsteps. Ruben sets his mind on going with him, with or without Cole’s approval. Along the way they uncover a great deal–about themselves, about their past, about life, and the conspiracy of events into the middle of which their sister just happened to fall.

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