Pierce’s Pick: Bad Signs by R.J. Ellory

This week, J. Kingston Pierce chooses Bad Signs by R.J. Ellory.

Seized as hostages by a fleeing psychopath, orphaned half-brothers Clarence and Elliott -- blind to the world outside their institution’s walls -- are suddenly swept up in a frantic getaway across America’s Southwest. That escape leaves a trail of violence and threatens to consume the siblings in their kidnapper’s frightening vision of the world.

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