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Nurren's Folly
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781450275781
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jan 6 2011
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
On his sixteenth birthday, Staf 's best friend, Jake, gives him a bogus ID for a birthday present; together, the two sneak into a bar to celebrate like the two men they pretend to be. As he enters the bar, Staf ignores the intense feeling of foreboding that overwhelms him, orders a beer, and confesses to Jake that he would like to be an all-star athlete without ever working for it. After a hunchbacked, toothless patron overhears the conversation, he offers the boy the chance of a lifetime. Staf thinks he has nothing to lose; as he and Jake head to the apothecary to meet the mysterious being who the stranger promises can help him, he has no idea the pact he is about to make a deal with a diabolical force will have tragic consequences.
A hero, an ultimate record holder, and history's best athlete soon discovers the life he dreamed for himself hinges on a contract signed in his own blood.
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