Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Bantam Books, 2009
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
399 pages; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780553807165, 0553807161
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Long and short of it--Barclay delivers on the hype. Fear the Worst starts with one of the better opening lines I've read in a while: "The morning of the day I lost her, my daughter asked me to scramble her some eggs." It's such a simple sentence, speaking of everyday domesticity. You can picture a father. You can picture a daughter. Yet you're already filled with dread. A bad thing has happened. And yeah, for the next four hundred pages, the bad thing gets a lot worse