Lost Author:Gary Devon A new master of terror and suspense makes his remarkable debut in Lost. — From page one, line one--when a twelve-year-old boy fires a gun at his own head while his little sister looks on--the novel seizes and holds us. — It carries us swiftly into a desperate chase...into a spiral of violence...into the story of a lonely woman who "collects" three... more » small children...into the lives of the children, overwhelmed by their sense of panic and loss...and into the nightmare world of the psychopath (himself a child) whose only companion is the terrifying dog known as "the Chinaman"--as he stalks the woman and her frightened brood, pursuing them across months and miles, leaving behind him a trail of blood, lost in the grip of a murderous obsession.
"The bullet entered his head slightly above and behind his left ear, and the air pocketed with the report. The shot jarred him off balance and his tense face hurtled sideways, blurred like a swiftly unwinding bobbin of thread. His name was Sherman Abbott; he was twelve years old."