Learn an extract from The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

The Ferryman

Justin Cronin

Orion (UK); Ballantine Books (US)

PROLOGUE

Daybreak is breaking when she creeps from the home. The air is cool and contemporary; birds are singing within the bushes. In all places, the sound of the ocean, the world’s nice metronome, beating beneath a velvety sky of diminishing stars. In her pale nightdress, she strikes via the backyard. Her tempo is just not hesitant, merely unhurried, virtually fond. How like a ghost she should look, this solitary determine floating among the many flower beds, the burbling fountains, the hedges trimmed with creases sharp sufficient to attract blood. Behind her, the home is …