From the award-winning author of November Road comes a masterful thriller where an unlikely hero goes up against a deadly crime boss''DARK RIDE is … thrilling and heartbreaking but ultimately life affirming.'' S.A. Cosby''DARK RIDE effortlessly grabs you and does not let you go until the final page.'' Don Winslow Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you needTwenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardly” Reed—good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned—is drifting through life.A minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions.Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench. Hardly checks if they’re okay and sees injuries on both children. Someone is hurting these kids.He reports the incident to Child Protective Service.That should be the end of it.After all, Hardly''s not even good at looking out for himself so the last thing he wants to do is look out for anyone else. But he''s haunted by th