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From award winning writer Gary A. Braunbeck comes Prodigal Blues, his first venture into non-unnatural horror.After he sees herself stuck in a truck stay in Missouri, Mark Sieber gets among the greatest shocks of his life when he acknowledges the facial skin of the little girl on the Absent poster as of the same little girl he noticed just a few moments before. Searching for some sign of her, he comes back to his desk in the cafe to obtain the little sitting there, ready for him."I am sorry, friend," is all she appears with the capacity of saying.As law enforcement and press start to meet on the vehicle end, Mark trips back to his accommodation to call his girlfriend and let her understand whatis going on, simply to be studied hostage by exactly the same individuals who launched the little woman. But his abductors are a bit more than children themselves.Ranging in ages from 12 to 19, Mark's abductors are along the way of escaping from a sadistic pedophile recognized to them only as "Grendel" a guy whose methods include pain and mutilation particularly, mutilation of the face.Mark's abductors have all been mutilated by Grendel who is quite close behind them and require somebody having a "regular encounter" to simply help them execute their arrange for justice and returning home.For the following couple of days, Mark can come to comprehend not only the inhuman terror these children have endured, but how they eventually learned to fight and how they found that Grendel and his methods are in the middle of an extremely complicated community catering to individuals who tastes run toward the molestation and mutilation of children.Prodigal Blues is probably Braunbeck's most suspenseful and emotionally powerful work up to now; a tale of enduring, depravity, payoff, and in the finish the in-patient's empathy for their fellow human-beings that may lead many people to discovering supplies of courage and dedication they never believed they possessed.Terrifying, suspenseful, often remarkably humorous, and ultimately moving, Prodigal Blues is perfect Braunbeck.