by James Swain
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JAMES SWAIN is author of ten bestselling mystery novels. His novels have been chosen as Mysteries of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, have received three Barry Award nominations, a Florida book award for Fiction, and won the prestigious Prix Calibre .38 for Best American Crime Fiction. His Tony Valentine novels were recently purchased for theatrical release, with Swain to write the screenplay. The author lives in Florida with his wife, Laura.
The Night Monster is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by James Swain
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Swain, James.
The night monster : a novel of suspense / James Swain.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-51662-6
1. Private investigators—Fiction. 2. Abduction—Fiction.
3. Florida—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.W225N53 2009
813’.54—dc22 2009028113
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