Expiration Date

Expiration DateIn this neighborhood, make a wrong turn and you're history. Mickey Wade is a recently unemployed journalist who lucked into a rent free apartment his sick grandfather's place. The only problem: it's in a lousy neighborhood the one where Mickey grew up, in fact. The one he was so desperate to escape. But now he's back. Dead broke. And just when he thinks he's reached rock bottom, Mickey wakes up in the past. Literally. At first he thinks it's a dream.

In this neighborhood, make a wrong turn...

... and you're history.

Mickey Wade is a recently-unemployed journalist who lucked into a rent-free apartment--his sick grandfather's place. The only problem: it's in a lousy neighborhood--the one where Mickey grew up, in fact. The one he was so desperate to escape.

But now he's back. Dead broke. And just when he thinks he's reached rock bottom, Mickey wakes up in the past. Literally.

At first he thinks it's a dream. All of the stores he remembered from his childhood, the cars, the rumble of the elevated train. But as he digs deeper into the past, searching for answers about the grandfather he hardly knows, Mickey meets the twelve-year-old kid who lives in the apartment below.

The kid who will grow up to someday murder Mickey's father, in Duane Swierczynski's Expiration Date.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 03/30/2010
ISBN: 9780312363406
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
Award: Anthony Awards - Winner
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Nominee

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/15/2009 pg. 86
Publishers Weekly 01/25/2010 pg. 92
Booklist 03/01/2010 pg. 53