This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2016 by Kevin Brooks
Cover photographs: copyright © 2018 by Alena Root/Shutterstock (boy); copyright © 2018 by Peter Hatter/Trevillion Images (trees); copyright © 2018 by Lisa Valder/Getty Images (snow)

Lines on pp. 129–130 from Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks (© Kevin Brooks, 2002) reproduced courtesy of Chicken House.
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First U.S. electronic edition 2018

First published by Electric Monkey, an imprint of Egmont U.K. Limited 2016

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