From award-winning author Brian Keene comes a darkly suspenseful tale of crime and the common manwith a surprising jolt of the supernaturalTommy OBrien once hoped to leave his run-down industrial hometown. But marriage and fatherhood have kept him running in place, working a job that doesnt even pay the bills. And now he seems fated to stay for the rest of his life. Tommys just learned hes going to die youngand soon. But he refuses to leave his family with less than nothingespecially now that he has nothing to lose. Over a couple of beers with his best friends, John and Sherm, Tommy launches a bold scheme to provide for his familys future. And though his plan will spin shockingly out of control, it will throw him together with a child whose touch can healand whose ultimate lesson is that there are far worse things than dying.From the Paperback edition.