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Disoriented and unable to find the sun, she searches for her identity through fragments of dreams and the persistent sense that something enormous is coming from upstream. The opening chapter establishes an investigative, murder-linked tone through glimpses of interrogation-style inquiry, moral uncertainty, and the eerie atmosphere surrounding what the river delivers.","Also by Timothy Hallinan  \nThe Poke Raʃerty Series A Nail Through the Heart The Fourth Watcher Breathing Water The Queen of Patpong The Fear Artist  \nThe Junior Bender Series Crashed Little Elvises The Fame Thief Herbie’s Game  \nThe Simeon Grist Series The Four Last Things Everything but the Squeal Skin Deep Incinerator The Man With No Time The Bone Polisher  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2014 by Timothy Hallinan  \nAll rights reserved.  \nPublished by  \nSoho Press, Inc.  \n853 Broadway  \nNew York, NY 10003  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nHallinan, Timothy.  \nFor the dead / Timothy Hallinan.  \npages ; cm  \nHC ISBN 978-1-61695-114-6  \nPB ISBN 978-1-61695-616-5  \neISBN 978-1-61695-115-3  \n1. Travel writers—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 3. Police corruption—Thailand—Fiction. 4. Bangkok (Thailand)—Fiction. I. Title.  \nPS3558.A3923F67 2014  \n813’.54—dc23  \n2014019052  \nv3.1  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFOR MUNYIN CHOY, ONE MORE TIME AND TO RALPHIE, WITH THANKS  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nCover  \nOther Books by This Author  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nPart One: We All Float …  \nChapter 1: The River  \nChapter 2: Exquisite Politeness  \nChapter 3: The Forest  \nChapter 4: Goop Is Uninformative  \nChapter 5: One Hundred Twelve Grams  \nChapter 6: Going Down  \nChapter 7: If You Are Me, Maybe Four Thousand Seven Hundred  \nChapter 8: You Can’t Live for the Dead  \nChapter 9: Flat as Buttons  \nChapter 10: I Feel Like We Should Take Care of Her  \nChapter 11: Human Fractals  \nChapter 12: Home  \nChapter 13: Door Number Two  \nChapter 14: Fifty Inches Is a Swimming Pool  \nChapter 15: Something Outside Herself  \nPart Two:…Until We Sink  \nChapter 16: Allergic  \nChapter 17: You Can Come Back Now  \nChapter 18: The Fence  \nChapter 19: An Empty Envelope  \nChapter 20: And a Few Who Want to See It Worked Out Wrong  \nChapter 21: You Don’t Know Anything  \nChapter 22: The Opposite of a Cover-up  \nChapter 23: Sunday  \nPart Three: Drowning Girls  \nChapter 24: One Girl Down There Somewhere  \nChapter 25: I’ve Changed, But I Haven’t Changed Into Anything  \nChapter 26: Her Mother Was Beautiful  \nChapter 27: Some Sort of Long-term Solution  \nChapter 28: The Cord  \nChapter 29: Adrift  \nChapter 30: Question Time  \nChapter 31: Hooked and Landed  \nChapter 32: Teams  \nChapter 33: Lighter Than Air and Apparently Combustible  \nChapter 34: Reading the Night  \nChapter 35: They Repaired His Moral Compass  \nPart Four: Aim and Ignite  \nChapter 36: There’s No Way They’ve Been Allowed to Go Anywhere  \nChapter 37: I Don’t Care If It’s a Zebra  \nChapter 38: It’ll Have Holes Worn in It in Twenty-four Hours  \nChapter 39: The One Wearing Hand-Me-Downs  \nChapter 40: Overcoat of Rage  \nChapter 41: The Best Scene in the Play  \nChapter 42: A Diʃerent Magnitude of Darkness  \nChapter 43: Gravel in a Clothes Dryer  \nChapter 44: He Can’t Shelter Them Indeɹnitely  \nChapter 45: The Light in the Window  \nChapter 46: A Lot Here We Wouldn’t Want to Lose Afterword  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPart One  \nWE ALL FLOAT …  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nThe River  \nTHE RIVER IS wider than it should be and it’s the wrong color. Instead of its usual reddish brown, a gift of the topsoil it steals from the rice farmers upstream, it’s a cold, metallic gray-green, the color of thesea beneath clouds. And it runs faster than it should, fast enough to whip up curving rills of white foam where the water quickens over the tops of stones.  \nAlthough the sky is a bottomless, unblemished blue, the girl can’t ɹnd the sun. She sits on the green bank, shadowless, watching the river’s ɻow, not knowing her name and not very bothered by it. Several names come to her, and they all seem to be hers, but she knows she only has one. If she could see her face, she thinks, if she knew how old she is, she’d know which name to accept.  \nThe landscape oʃers no clues or indications. There’s noth","cbCaij96Vqddf8rk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaij96Vqddf8rk","pdf",2282130,343,"English","en",105,"# Part One: We All Float …\n## Chapter 1: The River\n## Chapter 2: Exquisite Politeness\n## Chapter 3: The Forest\n# Part Two: …Until We Sink\n## Chapter 16: Allergic\n## Chapter 17: You Can Come Back Now\n## Chapter 18: The Fence\n# Part Three: Drowning Girls\n## Chapter 24: One Girl Down There Somewhere\n## Chapter 25: I’ve Changed, But I Haven’t Changed Into Anything\n## Chapter 26: Her Mother Was Beautiful\n# Part Four: Aim and Ignite\n## Chapter 36: There’s No Way They’ve Been Allowed to Go Anywhere\n## Chapter 45: The Light in the Window\n## Afterword","[{\"question\":\"Where does the story begin and what is Rose’s first defining experience?\",\"answer\":\"The story begins with Rose by the river, watching its unnatural gray-green flow while she cannot find the sun. 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