Том Светерлич - The Gone World

Thank you to my brother-in-law, Special Agent Peter O’Connor, who sparked the idea for this book over hamburgers at Five Guys when we talked about time travel.

Thank you to Neill Blomkamp and Jonathan Auxier, whose insights into this book were critical to its development.

Thank you to Laura Leimkuehler, Dr. Barry B. Luokkala, J. J. Hensley, Jen Latimer, and Dan Moran, all experts in their fields who generously shared their knowledge with me.

Thank you to David Gernert and Andy Kifer at the Gernert Company. Thank you to Sylvie Rabineau at RWSG Literary Agency.

Thank you to Mark Tavani, Sally Kim, and the entire team at Putnam.

Thank you to my family.

And thank you to my wife, Sonja, and daughter, Genevieve. You are the loves of my life.

Tom Sweterlitsch, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow , has a master’s degree in Literary and Cultural Theory from Carnegie Mellon and worked for twelve years at the Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and daughter.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sweterlitsch, Tom, author.

Title: The gone world / Tom Sweterlitsch.

Description: New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016049048 (print) | LCCN 2016057341 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399167508 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780698142763 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Time travel—Fiction. | Criminal investigation—Fiction. | GSAFD: Science fiction. | Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3619.W48 G66 2018 (print) | LCC PS3619.W48 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016049048

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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