DESERT
a novel of terror
PLACES

Blake Crouch

THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS
ST. MARTIN’S MINOTAUR
NEW YORK

for my parents, Clay and Susan Crouch

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Excerpts from “Desert Places” and “The Road Not Taken” from The Poetry of Robert Frost