As the story continues in this updated edition, canceled auctions, disappearing buyers, and and lawsuits beset the Hubert's Museum archive.
The father of a murdered eighteen-year-old boy describes the ordeal of his son's death and his research into the culture of violence and incompetence that surrounded the murder. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Praise for Gone Boy “Gibson is a fine writer whose work rivals the subtleties of Norman Mailer's best fiction.”—Boston magazine “Complex, surprising.... This book should be seriously considered by educational professionals, ...
A “wonderfully evocative” caper novel for fans of Donald E. Westlake and Elmore Leonard—“a signal pleasure for crime-fiction aficionados” (Booklist).
Gone Boy follows Gibson as he visits the gun seller, as well as detectives, lawyers, psychiatrists, politicians, and college bureaucrats— a cast of characters as vivid as those in a Raymond Chandler mystery.