"Tim Lebbon - Face" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lebbon Tim)

iii

HAUNTING THEIR NIGHTMARES

Dan dreamed of Brand as well.

They are in Bar None again, but this time the pool cue slips from his
grip and hits Brady on the shoulder. It pierces him there and arterial
blood sprays out across the room, giving fake cadavers new blood. Brand
grins at him and grasps his throat, lifting him until his head touches
the ceiling, shoving him up so that his skull cracks against a timber
beam, again and again, and all the while the others in the bar-Brady
gushing blood, Justin smiling in the corner, Norris the barman-are
willing Brand on. He's violent, he's always so violent, they say of Dan,
but as he goes to protest, Brand's fingers close into his throat and his
fingertips meet inside Dan's flesh.

He woke fighting Brand off, and in their dark bedroom in the middle of
the night he was being punched and hit.

Because Megan had been dreaming of spiders and birds and serpents, and
when she jerked awake there were a dozen of them using the holes in her
body, or making new ones. ...

iv

Other Leisure books by Tim Lebbon:

THE NATURE OF BALANCE

v

TIM LEBBON

FACE

LEISURE BOOKS

NEW YORK CITY

vi

For Nan and Granddad, wherever you are. You did a good lot.

A LEISURE BOOK®

May 2003

Published by