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Die Next

Jonathan Stone
Chapters (97)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
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Cover

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Title Page

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2020 by Jonathan Stone

Cover design by Alex Camlin
Cover copyright © 2020 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Stone, Jonathan, 1956- author.  
Title: Die next / Jonathan Stone.  
Description: First edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020. 
Identifiers: LCCN 2019054643 | ISBN 9781538733226 (trade paperback) |
     ISBN 9781538733233 (ebook)  
Subjects: GSAFD: Suspense fiction. 
Classification: LCC PS3569.T64132 D54 2020 | DDC 813/.54--dc23 
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054643

ISBNs: 978-1-5387-3322-6 (trade paperback), 978-1-5387-3323-3 (ebook)

E3-20200317-DA-NF-ORI

Dedication

This book is dedicated to CoCoBuYa, the long-running, endlessly entertaining group text that has kept my family connected for years.

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At a crowded downtown GreenGirl Coffee, Zack threads his way through tables of patrons in their own little worlds. Hunched over laptops, earbuds in, Times or Journal or work files spread out around them, checking their smartphones obsessively.

Zack finds an empty stool at the counter by the window and sets down his muffin and his Americano Grande. The cute Latina barista had flirted with him a little as she took his order. “I’m calling you Red,” she said with an impish smile, writing it on his cup before he could give his actual name. No mystery there. His wildly curly red hair. His calling card all his life. Along with a warm, unguarded smile, which he deploys at the barista in return.

Zack takes a deep sip and looks out, waiting for his pal Steve, due in about twenty minutes.