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From award-winning author Gary A. Braunbeck comes Prodigal Blues, his first foray into non-supernatural horror. After he confirms himself stranded at a pickup truck stop in Missouri, Mark Sieber gets one of the biggest shocks of his life when he identifies the face of just a little girl on a Missing poster as owned by the same litttle lady he saw only a few minutes before. Looking around for some signal of her, he comes back to his table in the restaurant to find the little girl sitting there, waiting for him. "I am sorry, mister," is all she seems with the capacity of saying. As the police and media begin to converge on the pickup truck stop, Mark retreats back again to his accommodation to call his partner and let her know what's happening, only to be taken hostage by the same people who released the little gal. But his abductors are bit more than children themselves. Varying in age range 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 routines include torture and mutilation specifically, mutilation of the face. Mark's abductors have all been mutilated by Grendel who may be very close behind them and need someone with a "normal face" to help them perform their arrange for justice and coming back home. For the next few days, Mark will come to comprehend not only the inhuman horror that these children have endured, but how they eventually learned to fight back and how they discovered that Grendel and his routines are at the center of a very complex network wedding caterers to people who tastes run toward the molestation and mutilation of children.
