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JOYRIDE and WEED SPECIES.

by Jack Ketchum.

WEED SPECIES Makes it's first appearance in paperback!

JOYRIDE OVERVIEW: Wayne, a bartender and would-be killer who always chickens out at the last minute, nearly chokes his girl-friend to death while on a hike. After she runs off, he happens to see a couple committing a brutal murder and recognizes one of them as a regular at his bar. The dead man, Howard -- done in by his ex-wife, Carole, and her new lover, Lee -- is found in a stream by a Boy Scout who is dispassionately curious about the stinking corpse. The pathways coalesce when Wayne forces Lee and Carole into a meaningless drive inevitably complete with senseless murder. These are the actors that make Ketchums melodrama compelling, nasty but peculiarly irresistible. -- Publishers Weekly.

WEED SPECIES OVERVIEW: In ecology. An invasive species, also called an invasive exotic, is an organism that is intentionally or accidentally introduced to an area where it is not native, and where it successfully invades and disturbs natural ecosystems, displacing native species. The term is most often applied to, but not limited to, plants. See also kudzu, water hyacinth, zebra mussel, Burmese python, eco-tourism, sociopath.

2010 Leisure Paperback. New / Sealed