What We Do Is Secret

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by Thorn Kief Hillsbery


  Rockets.

  This lonely, teenage blind kid.

  Walking backwards in the rain to the territory, ahead.

  February 2, 2004

  Santa Barbara

  John Simon Ritchie , requiescat in pace

  acknowledgments

  The author gratefully acknowledges the kindness and generosity of Tybie and Bernie Kirtman, which made possible the completion of this novel.

  about the author

  THORN KIEF HILLSBERY is the author of the novel War Boy. A former editor at Outside, he races motorcycles and lives in Manhattan.

  Also by

  Thorn Kief Hillsbery

  War Boy

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and

  incidents are the products of the author’s imagination

  or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual

  events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely

  coincidental.

  A Villard Books Trade Paperback Original

  Copyright © 2005 by Thorn Kief Hillsbery

  All rights reserved.

  Published in the United States by Villard Books,

  an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,

  a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  VILLARD and “V” CIRCLED Design are registered

  trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  Portions of this novel have previously appeared in

  different form in Brindlefish and Fugue.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hillsbery, Kief.

  What we do is secret: a novel / Thorn Kief Hillsbery.

  p. cm.

  1. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Fiction. 2. Punk culture—

  Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3558.I4534W47 2005

  813’.54—dc22 2004055484

  Villard Books website address: www.villard.com

  www.randomhouse.com

  eISBN: 978-0-307-41773-2

  v3.0

 

 

 


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