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Ebook Edition © April 2018 ISBN: 9780008280246

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Dedication

This story is about family, friends, and a good dog (which qualifies as both!), and so it is to these I dedicate the novel.

To Mom and Dad, for allowing—and encouraging—their weird son to read whatever he wanted.

To my own group of Outsiders that enriched my life throughout the school years. We may have never fought off assassins and gangsters, but sometimes just surviving life is a fight all its own, made a bit easier with a good group of pals.

To Sheba, Rusty, Outlaw, and Banjo: great dogs, and even better friends.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Part One: The Promise

Part Two: The Car and the Collector