Expiration Date
(St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2010)
Nominated for the 2010 Edgar Award (Best Paperback Original)!
In this neighborhood, make a wrong turn and you’re history.
Mickey Wade is a recently-unemployed journalist who lucked into a rent-free apartment—his sick grandfather’s place. The only problem: it’s in a lousy neighborhood—the one where Mickey grew up, in fact. The one he was so desperate to escape.
But now he’s back. Dead broke. And just when he thinks he’s reached rock bottom, Mickey wakes up in the past. Literally.
At first he thinks it’s a dream. All of the stores he remembered from his childhood, the cars, the rumble of the elevated train. But as he digs deeper into the past, searching for answers about the grandfather he hardly knows, Mickey meets the twelve-year-old kid who lives in the apartment below.
The kid who will grow up to someday murder Mickey’s father…
PRAISE FOR EXPIRATION DATE
“Swierczynski cleverly melds the thriller and fantasy elements (especially the notion of nonlinear time), producing a thoroughly readable, suspenseful romp that evokes John D. MacDonald’s pulp classic, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything.” Bill Ott, Booklist
“Swierczynski’s new one is not only the best of the bunch, it’s also planted square in the tiny, hard-to-hit intersection of science fiction, crime, horror, fantasy and probably a genre or two I’m forgetting right now. It’s a shotgun wedding of nuts and bolts quotidian reality and psyched-out gonzo fantasia.” –Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest
“Duane Swierczynski is one of the best thriller writers in America, and probably my favorite. I blazed through Expiration Date in one sitting and I loved it.” - James Frey, New York Times bestselling author of Bright Shiny Morning and A Million Little Pieces
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