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Bad Man

A Novel

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Bad Man

By: Dathan Auerbach
Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
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Reddit horror sensation Dathan Auerbach delivers a devilishly dark novel about a young boy who goes missing, and the brother who won't stop looking for him.

Eric disappeared when he was three years old. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took. His brother was gone. Vanished right into the sticky air of the Florida Panhandle.

They say you've got only a couple days to find a missing person. Forty-eight hours to conduct searches, knock on doors, and talk to witnesses. Two days to tear the world apart if there's any chance of putting yours back together. That's your window.

That window closed five years ago, leaving Ben's life in ruins. He still looks for his brother. Still searches, while his stepmother sits and waits and whispers for Eric, refusing to leave the house that Ben's father can no longer afford. Now twenty and desperate for work, Ben takes a night stock job at the only place that will have him: the store that blinked Eric out of existence.

Ben can feel that there's something wrong there. With the people. With his boss. With the graffitied baler that shudders and moans and beckons. There's something wrong with the air itself. He knows he's in the right place now. That the store has much to tell him. So he keeps searching. Keeps looking for his baby brother, while missing the most important message of all.

That he should have stopped looking.
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I enjoyed this more than I enjoyed "PenPal", Dathan's previous book, and that's high praise from me considering I thought PenPal was perfect. There is just something about this story, comparing it to PenPal, that feels more emotionally impactful and real. I teared up many times throughout this story, through the highs and lows, from the treetops to the ground.

If you want to have a bad time, "The Bad Man" is a must listen.

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