The Devil in Silver: A NovelNew Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. “A dizzying high-wire act.”—The Washington Post “Fantastical, hellish, and hilarious.”—Los Angeles Times “By turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.”—The Boston Globe ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die? The Devil in Silver is a thrillingly suspenseful literary work about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 25 |
Section 4 | 33 |
Section 5 | 49 |
Section 6 | 61 |
Section 7 | 72 |
Section 8 | 74 |
Section 22 | 219 |
Section 23 | 227 |
Section 24 | 229 |
Section 25 | 236 |
Section 26 | 237 |
Section 27 | 245 |
Section 28 | 252 |
Section 29 | 263 |
Section 9 | 86 |
Section 10 | 94 |
Section 11 | 99 |
Section 12 | 102 |
Section 13 | 113 |
Section 14 | 126 |
Section 15 | 140 |
Section 16 | 154 |
Section 17 | 162 |
Section 18 | 174 |
Section 19 | 183 |
Section 20 | 195 |
Section 21 | 211 |
Section 30 | 270 |
Section 31 | 281 |
Section 32 | 292 |
Section 33 | 303 |
Section 34 | 315 |
Section 35 | 324 |
Section 36 | 335 |
Section 37 | 352 |
Section 38 | 356 |
Section 39 | 374 |
Section 40 | 380 |
Section 41 | 395 |
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