The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy: The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs

The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy: The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs

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The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy: The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs

Fifteen-year-old Shreve Cannon doesn't mind juvie. He's got a good business dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day are more than his drunk mother managed to provide. In juvie, the rules never change and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has life figured out. Then the new fish shows up.

Jack's a quiet kid. Small. Cries himself to sleep too. He's no standard-issue titty-baby, though. There's his handsmore specifically his fingers, all twelve of 'em. And when he gets angry, something weird happens. The air wavers. You feel a slight pressure in your chest. And thenwell, best take cover.

Jack isn't the only new face in juvie. There's Mr. Quincrux. Quincrux has an unusual interest in Jack and Shreve, and it quickly becomes clear that innocent bystanders aren't going to get in his way. So Jack and Shreve bust out.

On the lam, they quickly discover that Jack has abilitieshell, superpowersthat might just give them a fighting chance against Quincrux, if they can stay alive long enough to figure them out.

John Hornor Jacobs is the author of The Twelve-Fingered Boy and The Shibboleth, two critically acclaimed novels. He and his family reside in Arkansas.

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ISBN 13 9781467737067
ISBN 10 1467737062
Title The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy: The Twelve-Fingered Boy
Author John Hornor Jacobs
Series Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Year published 2014-03-01
Number of pages 280
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.