Джош Малерман - Inspection

My mom, Debbie Sullivan, and her husband, Dave, thank you for reading the books when they were just printouts, unindented and all.

Candace Lake, thank you so.

And Ryan Lewis: when I tell people my manager is one of my best friends, they justifiably guess Ryan and I had been friends before my books started getting published. But that wasn’t the case. While working together—under what sometimes has felt like arctic-expedition conditions—Ryan and I have reached that spot where we’ve extracted bona fide friendship from a notoriously intense dynamic: the artist and manager. It’s like we’ve traveled two arcs, concurrently, one of work, one of play.

We’re still traveling them now.

And Dave Simmer, always and ever, thank you for getting this engine started to begin with.

Bird Box

Black Mad Wheel

Goblin

Unbury Carol

Inspection

JOSH MALERMAN is an internationally bestselling, Bram Stoker Award–nominated American author and one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. His debut novel Bird Box was published in the United Kingdom and United States in 2014 to much critical acclaim. His latest novel, Unbury Carol, was published in April 2018. He lives in Ferndale, Michigan, with his best friend/soul mate Allison Laakko and their pets Frankie, Valo, Dewey, Marty, and the fish.

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

Copyright © 2019 by Josh Malerman

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Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Hardback ISBN 9781524796990

Ebook ISBN 9781524797003

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