Wild Thing: A Novel Read online

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Exhibit G

  Chapter 23

  Exhibit H

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  THIRD THEORY: MONSTER

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Exhibit I

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Exhibit J

  Chapter 36

  EPILOGUE

  Chapter 37

  Appendix

  Sources

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Also by Josh Bazell

  Copyright

  Copyright

  Any real people who appear in this book are portrayed fictitiously and are the product of the author’s imagination. All other characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Copyright © 2012 by Josh Bazell

  Cover design by Ploy Siripant, cover art by David W. Ortega. Cover copyright © 2012 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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  Illustrations by Sam Zanger

  ISBN 978-0-316-12582-6